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RonNYC

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 4:03 pm    Post subject: Help with erasing through layers in CS4 Reply with quote

I used to do this a lot with my photographs, but I just forget how to do it. If I need to have a section of a photograph showing different contrast or perhaps much lighter or darker, I'd duplicate the layer, then DO SOMETHING, and then erase part of the top layer, so the lower layer would show through. Then I'd merge the layers.

BUT I forgot that that something is.

Please Help!!

THANKS.

RON
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Damo77

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 4:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Don't duplicate the layer. Use an adjustment layer to perform what you need, and it has an all-white mask attached, so you can simply paint with black over the areas you don't want affected.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 11:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Or hold down Alt whilst pressing the mask button for a black mask and paint white to reveal.
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