I'm having a really weird Photoshop problem, wondering if anyone has experienced this and can tell me what's going on.
Masking is not completely masking. When I go to the layer mask (not vector) and paint with a black brush, the pixels are not entirely going away. In other words, it looks like it is reducing opacity to about 10%, rather than masking completely.
Brush is at 100% opacity, hard edge, set to "normal" blend, the layer I'm working on is also set to normal blend with opacity and flow at 100%. Airbrush is off. Under the brush palette, nothing is checked, although I see that "smoothing" is grayed out.
The only way I can completely get rid of the ghost pixels is by using the erase tool.
In short.... things are behaving as if my brush is set to maybe 90% opacity.
In addition... I usually place a 50% gray layer beneath the layer I'm masking, helps me to see edges clearly. When I work on the mask, anyplace I use the black brush also creates a shadow on the gray layer below.
If I drag he masked image onto another picture, this slight shadow goes with it. If I first delete the gray layer, that doesn't happen.
Using CS5, have been on it for years, can't think of anything that changed to cause this.
Anyone?
Masking is not completely masking. When I go to the layer mask (not vector) and paint with a black brush, the pixels are not entirely going away. In other words, it looks like it is reducing opacity to about 10%, rather than masking completely.
Brush is at 100% opacity, hard edge, set to "normal" blend, the layer I'm working on is also set to normal blend with opacity and flow at 100%. Airbrush is off. Under the brush palette, nothing is checked, although I see that "smoothing" is grayed out.
The only way I can completely get rid of the ghost pixels is by using the erase tool.
In short.... things are behaving as if my brush is set to maybe 90% opacity.
In addition... I usually place a 50% gray layer beneath the layer I'm masking, helps me to see edges clearly. When I work on the mask, anyplace I use the black brush also creates a shadow on the gray layer below.
If I drag he masked image onto another picture, this slight shadow goes with it. If I first delete the gray layer, that doesn't happen.
Using CS5, have been on it for years, can't think of anything that changed to cause this.
Anyone?
