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The FWIW info: I have been trying to learn the elements of Photoshop through Nat Gertler’s book Project Photoshop 7 , if anyone has that to refer to. I am fighting with a mini-project very similar to Procedure 3 in Project 3 ("The Baseball Card"). I am working on a Mac Powerbook G4 running OS 10.3.9
My problem involves layering. I have cropped and loaded a picture (Layer 1). It is completely covered by a second layer of solid color (Layer 2). What I want to do is cut a rectangular-shaped hole in the Layer 2 so that part of Layer 1 shows through it.
I couldn’t do this with the cropping tool. According to the manual, I should be able to do it with some combination of the rectangle tool and the Subtract-From-Shape-Area option on the top bar. But I can’t get these two to work together. Clicking the rectangle tool only gives me the Shape Layers, Paths, and Fill Pixels options. The only way to get the Subtract-From-Shape-Area is to choose the Rectangular Marquee Tool, but no combination of the two will subtract the selected area from Layer 2 — all I get are the marquee lines.
I don’t know whether the problem is a result of a faulty copy of Photoshop, some problem with my own computer, or the result of my own incompetence. Any suggestions would be mightily appreciated. —
Kill The Tribble to email me.
My problem involves layering. I have cropped and loaded a picture (Layer 1). It is completely covered by a second layer of solid color (Layer 2). What I want to do is cut a rectangular-shaped hole in the Layer 2 so that part of Layer 1 shows through it.
I couldn’t do this with the cropping tool. According to the manual, I should be able to do it with some combination of the rectangle tool and the Subtract-From-Shape-Area option on the top bar. But I can’t get these two to work together. Clicking the rectangle tool only gives me the Shape Layers, Paths, and Fill Pixels options. The only way to get the Subtract-From-Shape-Area is to choose the Rectangular Marquee Tool, but no combination of the two will subtract the selected area from Layer 2 — all I get are the marquee lines.
I don’t know whether the problem is a result of a faulty copy of Photoshop, some problem with my own computer, or the result of my own incompetence. Any suggestions would be mightily appreciated. —
Kill The Tribble to email me.
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