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I am working my way through Scott Kelby’s ‘The Photoshop Elements Book for Digital Photographers,’ have arrived at pages 65-66, and have a conceptual problem. He has started with a photo that is too dark, has copied the background layer and lightened that duplicate layer using levels. In order to be more selective in the area lightened he has added a new layer. This ends up between the background (on the bottom) and its copy (on top). He has then grouped the copy with the new layer just below it and the lightening on the copy has been masked.
So far I have done fairly well, accepting that a grouped new layer carries a mask, though I don’t know why it needs to be grouped to demonstrate that property. Selecting the new layer and painting with a brush reveals the lightening he has produced on the copy layer. My problem is with understanding why it makes no difference to the result whether he brushes with a black or a white foreground selected.
Larry
So far I have done fairly well, accepting that a grouped new layer carries a mask, though I don’t know why it needs to be grouped to demonstrate that property. Selecting the new layer and painting with a brush reveals the lightening he has produced on the copy layer. My problem is with understanding why it makes no difference to the result whether he brushes with a black or a white foreground selected.
Larry
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