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Can Someone Tell me Why Overlay Not Working


sgalli

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Hi All,

I have using the overlay feature in Photoshop for two years now. It's always worked well, I put a solid color on one layer, a black and white image on a layer above it, choose overlay, and the black and white image takes on the color from the layer below, keeping all the contrast of the original photo. It's why I like this instead of just changing the opacity, which just lightens and washes the image out, even though the color shows through. Now suddenly when I try to do the same thing I've always done, it takes on the color but I get all these bright blown out areas. I have always worked in CMYK as it's for print. I tried making the image black and white and copying it directly from the grayscale file and pasting it into the CMYK file, and I've tried making it a grayscale image, and then turning it back into a CMYK before I paste it into the actual CMYK file I'm working with. Both ways have the same bad result. It's almost as though a preference accidently got changed but I can't find what it might be.

Any thoughts anyone?
 
I've never been able to just switch to overlay without the blow outtalking about, unless it was a very dark image with limited midtones and no highlights. A levels adjustment on the overlay layer should get you the desired results.

Alternatively, you can use multiply for a transparent layer option, but will experience heavy shadows that may require a levels adjustment as well. Hope this helps.
 

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