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I am new to Elements and using a 2.66 Ghz laptop running XP Home with 512 of ram.
I opened a map gif of Glacier Bay from the web and changed it to RGB. Then added a layer. On the layer I used the brush tool to paint white over the background to show the recession of the glaciers over the past 300 years.
I had planned on doing a Save As… for each recorded date of obvservation then erase the parts of the glaciers that had receded.
When I tried to erase portions of the drawing, the eraser tool allowed me to erase just a small bit of the white, then stopped. I was unable to erase any more of the white. I even held the mouse button down thinking the redraw time was lagging behind, but that only caused the Layer palette and the Tools palette to blink out to gray then back to normal again.
What’s going on here? Am I asking it to do something it can’t? I had to work backwards from most recent history to the past by doing a Save As… and adding to the white portions. But I really would have liked just to erase away the parts of the glaciers that had melted.
Thanks,
Daniel
I opened a map gif of Glacier Bay from the web and changed it to RGB. Then added a layer. On the layer I used the brush tool to paint white over the background to show the recession of the glaciers over the past 300 years.
I had planned on doing a Save As… for each recorded date of obvservation then erase the parts of the glaciers that had receded.
When I tried to erase portions of the drawing, the eraser tool allowed me to erase just a small bit of the white, then stopped. I was unable to erase any more of the white. I even held the mouse button down thinking the redraw time was lagging behind, but that only caused the Layer palette and the Tools palette to blink out to gray then back to normal again.
What’s going on here? Am I asking it to do something it can’t? I had to work backwards from most recent history to the past by doing a Save As… and adding to the white portions. But I really would have liked just to erase away the parts of the glaciers that had melted.
Thanks,
Daniel
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