any idea?
Of what you’re talking about? No. <chuckle> No offense. I hope you’ll pardon my candor but you really need to approach these forums as if no one knows anything about what you do, and everyone does different things different ways – so pretend that we can’t see what you’re talking about <whispering> because we can’t <smile>.
Look, it sounds like you’re talking about painting a mask out – I don’t know how you’re accessing the "mask" (channel palette?), or if it is a true mask or something you’re calling a mask. But the basic idea is that a selection can be a mask. There’s no reason that you can’t load that mask as a selection, and then turn on Quick Mask (Q), and paint/erase/whatever, on the QM. Then, exit QM mode and save your new mask.
But I could be off base…
Peace,
Tony
Create another layer after you have worked on the hotspots?
Alt-click on the layer mask thumbnail.
If your background paint color isn’t black, type d x to make it black. Ctrl+Backspace will fill with the black background color. Click on the image layer thumbnail to go back to the image.
Now you can click on the layer mask thumbnail and paint with white to mask things out.
From the nature of most of your questions, it appears that you you need to spend more time not just learning techniques, but understanding how they work. Photoshop is so complex that you need to understand a bit of what’s under the hood to get the best out of it. It’s like a Ferrari compared to a family runabout.
Make a new empty layer at the top of the stack and press Alt+Ctrl+Shift+E.
This will create a merged version of your image on that layer whilst leaving all the underlying layers untouched.
Now you can apply further edits to that layer just as you would to a flattened file.
Linda, then do gaussian blur, set a snapshot point, step back in history and paint clone from your snapshot.
thanks.
I think somewhere in there is the answer. I’ll play around. Appreciate it.
