Vectors and cleaning edges advice please

[fotojunkie]

Channel masking

Yipes

theres one for down the road a piece

Just had some toast for tea......

pluggin away all seems well nuff so far

Thanks for explaining so well

[fotojunkie]

Just noticed

when i draw those black dots on vector mask

i actually reveal the black dot on the object

not the nice fade/subtle effect from tutorial

i cant change opacity , because i also fade

Ie the 2nd temple

any idea of what where im going wrong ?

Cheers

[fotojunkie]

PS

when choosing vector mask , do i choose show or hide all ?

i chose show

Thanks

[jerryb]

hi,
your welcome....
channel masking that relatively easy... also you may come across calculations... don't let the word send shivers.. smiling... i know it did me... but all it is just another meathod to aschieve channel masking...

there a lot of ways to mask things and it depends on the image and what your comfortable with, on which you use for a given image....

when you get ready i have several bookmarks for using channels to mask objects...

Channel masking

Yipes

theres one for down the road a piece

Just had some toast for tea......

pluggin away all seems well nuff so far

Thanks for explaining so well

[jerryb]

hi,
on your questions about "hide all" i found clicking the reveal all works best....

now on theother question about the dots.... you skip a step in the tutorialll plus i believe i mentioned that but but maybe specifically enough to catch your attention.... ..........

you go ahead put in the big fuzzy dots and it will show as such on the texture at first............. now this assuming that you did click reveal all) the next step after the dots is change your blend to overlay!! then will see that the big dots become faded in to the texture........ note after you have change to the overlay blend if you want to add some more dots to that layer just go ahead..... they'll blend in..

Just noticed

when i draw those black dots on vector mask

i actually reveal the black dot on the object

not the nice fade/subtle effect from tutorial

i cant change opacity , because i also fade

Ie the 2nd temple

any idea of what where im going wrong ?

Cheers

[fotojunkie]

OK

Thanks , i stopped at that step thinking , ma this wont do

so ill keep going

ill just attatch a copy of what ive done thus far , youll see why i was worried

PS i dont think ill ever get that bottom 3 dots like the tut tho ?

Cheers

[jerryb]

the layer that has the 3 dots did you set the blending mode (on the layer pallett) to overlay?

on the layers of the building did you set the blending mode to multiply...?

OK

Thanks , i stopped at that step thinking , ma this wont do

so ill keep going

ill just attatch a copy of what ive done thus far , youll see why i was worried

PS i dont think ill ever get that bottom 3 dots like the tut tho ?

Cheers

[fotojunkie]

Darn

Yes and yes

i just double checked

may it be brush/colour selection , some small thing

the authour missed in tut ?

[fotojunkie]

For the life of me i cant make those vector mask dots look anywhere near

shadows/faded areas as in the tut

ive saved the project so i can keep gping back to b4

i did the vector

ive even tried on different pics/projects

damn

[jerryb]

hi,
i going to repeat the steps.... a little different.....
1. open your texture paper........
2. make a duplicate layer and set the blending mode to "darken" on that 2nd layer ...
3. now make a duplicate of that 2nd layer... it should place itself at the top if it doesn't then manually do it.... it just click and drag..
4. now go to your layer menu and select add vector>reveal all
note: make sure you choose select vector mask and not layer mask..
5. you should now see the white mask thmbnail over in the layer pallet. and there should be a liiiittttle frame around that mask......
6. make sure on tool bar the color squares show black for forground and white for background..........
7. now choose your brush .... pick that one that has a big tip and it edge is fuzzy ......
8. now paint your 3 dots... at this point they will look like black dot on the text layer....
9 and here where the magic come in.... go to the layer pallett and choose overlay... voila... you will then see the black dots become faded subtle and fade in with the color of the texture...

now the very first time it worked for me and when i went back the 2nd and 3rd time it didn't.... the reason it didn't was that i was in advertantly clicking layer mask and not vector mask!!!! so watch out for that.. smmiling...

For the life of me i cant make those vector mask dots look anywhere near

shadows/faded areas as in the tut

ive saved the project so i can keep gping back to b4

i did the vector

ive even tried on different pics/projects

damn