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Am I correct in thinking that layer masks are terribly badly implemented in Elements 2? I’m not talking about the selection masks which you can turn on with the selection brush.
Elements seems to recognise, and honour, layer masks created in other applications but other than horrendous bodges there doesn’t seem any simple way of creating one directly in Elements from, say, a selected area. There’s not any real mention of them in the manual. Well it mentions how to use them if they exist but not how to create them.
Am I wasting my time looking for a simple, straightforward way of creating one? At present if I absolutely must have a layer mask I squirt the file across to Photodesk on my Risc OS machine, apply the mask and then squirt it back to the Mac.
Elements seems to recognise, and honour, layer masks created in other applications but other than horrendous bodges there doesn’t seem any simple way of creating one directly in Elements from, say, a selected area. There’s not any real mention of them in the manual. Well it mentions how to use them if they exist but not how to create them.
Am I wasting my time looking for a simple, straightforward way of creating one? At present if I absolutely must have a layer mask I squirt the file across to Photodesk on my Risc OS machine, apply the mask and then squirt it back to the Mac.
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