Copy to New Layer

TB
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t_brian
Feb 21, 2009
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Simple gray scale photo of kite in sky. The kite is not completely surrounded by sky, part of it is out of the shot. I want to make the sky flash the gray it is now to white(gif). I used the polygonal lasso tool to select the sky. I dont know how to copy it to a new layer so I can change the exposure and make one frame with the original layer showing, another with the exposed layer showing. After I select with the lasso, all the items under "layer" are grayed out including "new". I tried the new layer icon at the bottom of the palette but no go. The closest I have come is edit>copy but where to put it?

Also, if I lasso the kite, isnt it subjective which is the background and which is the foreground?

Anyway, thanks for any help!
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JJ
John Joslin
Feb 21, 2009
If I understood what you are asking you want Ctrl+J.
TB
t_brian
Feb 21, 2009
Im sorry but what does Ctrl+J do?
JJ
John Joslin
Feb 21, 2009
Copies the selection to a new layer. That’s what you wanted isn’t it?
TB
t_brian
Feb 21, 2009
Yes, thats what I am trying to do. I tried Ctrl+j when you said that but I saw nothing happen. Just tried it again-no new choices under "layer", nothing new on the layers palette, nothing new under "edit". Maybe Im just retarded =)
JJ
John Joslin
Feb 21, 2009
Well it works here. <shrug>
TB
t_brian
Feb 21, 2009
What exactly does it do there?
JJ
John Joslin
Feb 21, 2009
I take an image with some sky in it.
I select the area of the sky using the Quick Selection tool. I hold down the Ctrl key and press the "J" key A new layer appears in the layers palette/panel with just the sky in it.

I can then apply an adustment to this layer.
TB
t_brian
Feb 21, 2009
My CS2 doesnt cooperate, Quick Selection tool sounds like CS3. But I’ll keep at it.
JJ
John Joslin
Feb 21, 2009
The choice of selection tool is irrelevant.
TB
t_brian
Feb 21, 2009
ok, thanks
BL
Bob Levine
Feb 21, 2009
You can’t create a new layer with indexed color file. Convert to grayscale first.

Bob
JJ
John Joslin
Feb 21, 2009
Whoops! Didn’t spot that Bob. >:(
TB
t_brian
Feb 22, 2009
Thanks for that Bob. Got it. But having trouble finishing project. Progress so far: Lassoed the kite. Layer via copy. Now in layers palette have a thumbnail with the sky I want and the outline of the kite still visible (background)and one with just the kite with checker board sky(Layer 1). image>adjustments>exposure, 5.20 exposure/+0.2400 offset, changing the dark gray sky to ‘white’. Opened the animation palette and now have kite (layer 1) as first frame. Frame delay, tweening, duplicating frames to tweak the animation I can do but the one thing missing is a frame with the "original" photo in it so the animation will flit between dark gray sky and white sky. Im guessing animation frames come from layers of the photo being worked on. So I cant just use the original as the second frame because the focus, for lack of the right term, of the palettes shift to THAT photo when I open it. How do I get the kite with the dark gray sky into the animation?

Thank you ever so much!

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