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kylepierce11
Joined: 04 Apr 2012
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 Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 3:47 pm Post subject: Need help with layering basics |
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I am editing a picture where I am trying to make a girl's lips more red, and her eyes more blue. I have pressed q to create a new layer of only her eyes, and a new layer of only her lips. It is only showing the top layer and the color balance I added to it.
So I guess I have a few questions.
1. Is this a mask? I'm trying to learn all these terms, because I'm very new to photoshop
2. How can I make both the layers and their changes visible?
Thanks to whoever has the patience to deal with the new guy. |
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thehermit
Joined: 05 Mar 2003
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Location: Cheltenham, UK
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Welcome to the forum.
Q is a quick mask, to the eye it paints a red overlay to indicate what is masked or not, when you press Q again after completing your selection, it should revert to the marching ants selection path.
Quick mask does not create layers, only selections (on the layer you are currently on, including blank).
To promote a selection to a layer you could press Ctrl+J. However I would be more tempted use adjustment layers clipped to selections, but I don't want to confuse you at this stage.
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kylepierce11
Joined: 04 Apr 2012
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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Wow I totally forgot to mention that step. Yeah I was using ctrl-J to promote it. But since I was trying to make 2 separate changes, it made 2 separate layers, and only one was visible. So the eye change was visible, but the lips wee not. |
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jerryb4417
Joined: 20 Dec 2008
Posts: 710
Location: Oklahoma
PS Version: photoshop cs5
OS: win7 pro 64 bit, i7-3.2g, GTS 450,
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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hi,
you'll find guys here will love to help you... anyway
sound like you did not turn on the lips layer...you need to make sure the eye for the lips layer is on.
note.. if the eye is not showing on the lips layer then just click the little box and the eye will show and that tells you the layer is visble now..
as far as your first question... it no that is not a mask... another term to get familiar with... is layer masks .... for example... one way i would have done what you did was just do dups of the image... do a selection on one (the eye) and then add a layer mask ... and repeat the process for the other....
you might be interested in this 3 page tutorial on masks... http://www.lunacore.com/photoshop/tutorials/tut003.htm |
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Trafalgar
Joined: 07 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 11:13 am Post subject: |
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Use a mask and make eyes the only thing visible on eyes layer, same thing goes with lips layer.  |
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