The general rule is that anything with data in it will often obscure whatever is beneath it.
Ok did test and right.
PUt a bg copy. then went back to bg, and painted — But I had to turn off the upper copy to see the painting, then turned upper copy on and the painting was gone.
Now in real life, I usually don’t do just that, but geez, if you’ve got 5 or six layers, 1/2 adjustments, and 1/2 bg copies, how do you all keep organized what is visible at a giving time?
How do you all keep organized what is visible at a giving time?
Using layers sets (layer groups in PS2)
But I had to turn off the upper copy to see the painting, then turned upper copy on and the painting was gone.
Read again: "Anything with data in it will often obscure whatever is beneath it." ALT+click the visibility icon next to the layer that hides the background one (so that only that layer shows).
Isn’t there content exactly where you did not see the changes you made on the background?
Scottie, you need to look at the problems with different angles.
how do you all keep organized what is visible at a giving time?
What Pierre said.
Also try this:
Lets say you need to retouch the face and alter something on the clothes but want to keep the edits on separate layers. Instead of simply duplicating the background layer, first make a selection of the face and hit Ctrl+J. This will create a new layer containing only the face.
Activate the background layer again and do the same for the clothes.
Now you can perform the edits on the relevant layers whilst the rest of the background layer shows through the transparency.
Tip: If you click the ‘lock transparency’ button in the layers palette it will prevent any accidental ‘overspill’ of your retouch.
Hope all this helps.
Chris.
thanks, nice tips.
Chris, what was getting hairy, was then I might then want to use the clone tool, but it was grabbing pixels from an older version or layer, but I got some relief with the "stamp visible" trick.
