How to resize an adjustment layer and apply to another document

wrote:

Hi,
I’m trying to do this
1. resize a big graphic file (FILEA) to a smaller one (FILEB)
2. add adjustment layer to adjust the curves, levels etc on the smaller
file FILEB
3. Apply the layers for FILEB back to FILEA; <– At this step, the adjustment layers form fileB is too small so they only apply to a very small area of FILEA.

How to resize the adjustment layers from FILEB and apply it to FILEA?
Thanks,
Lan

Adjustment Layers don’t have size. You must have a mask on it. Unlink or ditch the mask.

—
Comic book sketches and artwork:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/edjh.html
Comics art for sale:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/batsale.html

How to "ditch" the mask?
Thanks!

In article ,
wrote:

3. Apply the layers for FILEB back to FILEA; <– At this step, the adjustment layers form fileB is too small so they only apply to a very small area of FILEA.

An adjustment layer is never a "size." However, it does have a mask associated with it. While in the adjustment layer, select all and fill with white and you will apply that adjustment layer to the entire image.

—
Art, photography, shareware, polyamory, literature, kink: all at http://www.xeromag.com/franklin.html

Look in the layers palette. There are two icons. The one of the left is for the adustments. The one on the right is the mask. You can click and hold on the mask icon and then drag it to the layer trash can. PS will ask if you want to discard the mask. Just say yes.

You should know too that you can drag layers between documents. Again, click and hold on the layer of file A, then drag onto the image of file B.

dp

wrote:

How to "ditch" the mask?
Thanks!

alternatively, you can save the levels adjustments and reuse them. In the palette for levels use save…. then open the new document hit levels and then use LOAD. You could automate an action to save time if you need to do a lot of files.

wrote in message

Hi,
I’m trying to do this
1. resize a big graphic file (FILEA) to a smaller one (FILEB)
2. add adjustment layer to adjust the curves, levels etc on the smaller
file FILEB
3. Apply the layers for FILEB back to FILEA; <– At this step, the adjustment layers form fileB is too small so they only apply to a very small area of FILEA.

How to resize the adjustment layers from FILEB and apply it to FILEA?
Thanks,
Lan

I actually don’t want to throw away the mask. Instead, I want to resize the mask to the same size of the bigger file. None of the answers above showed how to resize the mask.

To be more specific
1. resize a big graphic file (FILEA) to a smaller one (FILEB)
2. add adjustment layer to adjust the curves, levels etc on the smaller

file FILEB. Masks are applied to the layers
3. Apply the layers for FILEB back to FILEA; <– At this step, the adjustment layers and their masks form fileB is too small so they only apply to a very
small area of FILEA.

How to resize the masks to fit the bigger file?

Thanks!

why resize first? why work on the smaller image first? that is not good workflow, I would do the artwork on the largest file available then save smaller copies later.
make the smaller B image the same size/res as the larger A and then drag over? then close B without saving?

wrote in message

I actually don’t want to throw away the mask. Instead, I want to resize the mask to the same size of the bigger file. None of the answers above showed how to resize the mask.

To be more specific
1. resize a big graphic file (FILEA) to a smaller one (FILEB)
2. add adjustment layer to adjust the curves, levels etc on the smaller

file FILEB. Masks are applied to the layers
3. Apply the layers for FILEB back to FILEA; <– At this step, the adjustment layers and their masks form fileB is too small so they only apply to a very
small area of FILEA.

How to resize the masks to fit the bigger file?

Thanks!

wrote:

I actually don’t want to throw away the mask. Instead, I want to resize the mask to the same size of the bigger file. None of the answers above showed how to resize the mask.

To be more specific
1. resize a big graphic file (FILEA) to a smaller one (FILEB)
2. add adjustment layer to adjust the curves, levels etc on the smaller

file FILEB. Masks are applied to the layers
3. Apply the layers for FILEB back to FILEA; <– At this step, the adjustment layers and their masks form fileB is too small so they only apply to a very
small area of FILEA.

How to resize the masks to fit the bigger file?

Thanks!

Ah! You didn’t ask that. Click on the mask and use Edit>Transform.

—
Comic book sketches and artwork:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/edjh.html
Comics art for sale:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/batsale.html

"KatWoman" wrote:

why resize first? why work on the smaller image first? that is not good workflow, I would do the artwork on the largest file available then save smaller copies later.

I humbly beg to differ, ma jolie princesse. Consider a huge scan e.g. of a 4×5" negative at 2400 dpi. It will be much smaller when stored as a high quality jpeg and the loss from saving as a HQ jpeg once is usually not visible (we are not talking about a jing jang symbol here). If one wants to make adjustments (curves, color balance, monochrome via channel mixer etc) it is convenient to make these on a really small copy of the original and store this small copy as a psd file together with the jpeg which is left untouched. This has several advantages. 1. a lot of disk space is saved, 2. original data is neither changed nor degraded, 3. new versions of the image are created by simply loading the original jpeg together with the small psd file, modifying the adjustment layers in the psd file, saving this file as a new version and moving the adjustment layers to the jpeg. The modified image is sent to the print shop/customer. There is no need to resave the modified image on the hard disk because the information is in the psd file. In this way, several versions of a huge image can easily be kept at a negligible consumption of disk space.

Peter

Yes, it works! Thanks!

"Peter Wollenberg" wrote in message

"KatWoman" wrote:

why resize first? why work on the smaller image first? that is not good workflow, I would do the artwork on the largest file available then save smaller copies later.

I humbly beg to differ, ma jolie princesse. Consider a huge scan e.g. of a 4×5" negative at 2400 dpi. It will be much smaller when stored as a high quality jpeg and the loss from saving as a HQ jpeg once is usually not visible (we are not talking about a jing jang symbol here). If one wants to make adjustments (curves, color balance, monochrome via channel mixer etc) it is convenient to make these on a really small copy of the original and store this small copy as a psd file together with the jpeg which is left untouched. This has several advantages. 1. a lot of disk space is saved, 2. original data is neither changed nor degraded, 3. new versions of the image are created by simply loading the original jpeg together with the small psd file, modifying the adjustment layers in the psd file, saving this file as a new version and moving the adjustment layers to the jpeg. The modified image is sent to the print shop/customer. There is no need to resave the modified image on the hard disk because the information is in the psd file. In this way, several versions of a huge image can easily be kept at a negligible consumption of disk space.

Peter

that is a good point, but I never have had that situation.

"Peter Wollenberg" wrote

In this way, several versions of a huge image can easily be kept at a negligible consumption of disk space.

Who worries about disc space anymore?

"johnboy" wrote:

"Peter Wollenberg" wrote

In this way, several versions of a huge image can easily be kept at a negligible consumption of disk space.

Who worries about disc space anymore?

I am talking about files with a size of several hundred MB each. For me, it makes a difference whether I waste 1 GB on just three versions of such a file or 150 MB. Since I keep at least two backups of my work, this sums up to 3 GB vs. 0,5 GB _per image_. If you need not worry about this amount of storage/backup space, happy you.

Peter