Day 5 retouching question

[GaryK]

ooo oooo ..Mr Cross sir, I have a question...(frantically waving hand in the air)

I was wondering about the sequence of layers if I wanted to do both the whitening as well as the colouring. I always seem to have trouble with a double mask.

Thanks,

Gary.

[editor]

The best thing to do is try it out: make 2 adjustment layers, each with their own layer masks and then play around with the order: drag the Levels adjustment layer up or down in the layer order. Chances are, you'll end up with the Hue/Saturation adj layer above the Levels adj layer, but there may be exceptions...

[GaryK]

Thanks Dave

Does the lower mask stop the upper mask from showing?

[willpresley]

OH! Good question Gary -- I've wondered that myself :roll:

[GaryK]

Will

My problem is, because I'm still learning quite a bit of stuff, if something doesn't work right (meaning the way I expected it to) I never know if its me doing something wrong, or just the way I have something set up.

[GaryK]

Will

After posting the above question, I did some colour boxes with a hue/sat and levels adj. layer on top of each other. The lower mask didn't seem to stop the upper adjustment. I didn't try swithcing them around (forgot)

[willpresley]

Dabbling in the dark arts are you -- well Dave does encourage trying things to see what happens -- at least I know your original work is safe, so dabble away and let us know how it turns out -- maybe a pixentral image would be nifty.

[GaryK]

Will

I hope this is self explanitory

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=13oVXWl9jyGNxiSelh0gYl3ya1U

[willpresley]

With the layers palette to refer to it makes sense -- thanks for sharing.

[editor]

The layer mask only affects the adjustment layer it's attached too. The order of the layers can have an affect on the overall look though.

[GaryK]

Thanks Dave

I must have been doing something wrong before. Don't worry it was before your lessons.... :lol:

The project I was playing with had the double mask, and it really seemed like the lower one was blocking the upper one. I proved myself wrong with the pixentral post. Oh well.

Thanks again for getting back.