Photoshop Trouble

[RQuack]

Hmmm....make sure everything's deselected and preserve transparency is off or layers are locked. That's weird though, never had anything like that from what I can remember. I'll think of other stuff.

[Mrpearlzildjian]

Pardon me for being rusty, how would I navigate to the switch for Preserving Transparency? I have an odd feeling that may be the problem, as all my new layers have a transparent background.. so if it's hidden somewhere and on, then that might be what's causing this...

[everlite]

Did you get it sorted out? try dragging the layer into a blank document maybe. Daft and obvious question would be do you have the layer selected?? :) and ... are you SURE you've got the layer selected?? :) and the element is on that layer. hmm, not sure. Again you could split it to a new doc, maybe post it up then we can have a play.

Dave.

[TomasWarren]

Sometimes i have a quick mask which is so subtle that the marquee doesn't show up, and i forget that i have the mask on and try to do colour correction or something and it doesn't work..don't know if that might be it?

[RQuack]

As far as preserve transparaency, its the little checkerboard icon at the top left of the layer window, below the blending modes.

[Argopo]

Note that Adobe changed the term "preserve transparency" to "lock transparency" for CS3.

Its still that checkboard icon in the layers palette, but I had a hard time looking up the term in the manual until I realized its referenced as "lock transparency."

[everlite]

yeh if there's any kind of mask in there you could have this selected instead of the graphic element itself. Its very subtle seeing when this is the case, i too often get fooled by this one :)

[Mrpearlzildjian]

Ok, I sought out the preserving transparency, but like I suspected, it was already off by default.. it is a flat color on the layer(no noise, etc.), so I don't know if that has anything to do with it, and the only tool besides the brush that I can get to work is the smudge tool. Burning, dodging, etc. doesn't work at all. And when I try to use something like "replace color", even if I switch it to bright red, it only changes the value(i.e. it gets brighter, but stays grey), almost like it's in monochrome.. but I have it in RGB mode.. so that makes no sense to me... I'm going to try and post it here and let you all have a play at it.. cuz I'm completely lost.

http://www.mediafire.com/?s2h9licwgfl

By the way, thanks for all the help!!

[RQuack]

Okey doke, heres what it is, I think. Everything is pretty much grey. It's very hard to get color into grey. The colors are changing you just cant tell. When you lighten/darken them, the colors and all will change fine. Burn, dodge and all them work fine too. Its just that its grey. Not sure why when you changed color it got brighter, but its working ok for me. Let me know if thats what you think it is. Oh, and a neat trick sometimes is to copy the pencil line layers and put a multiply blend on it on the top layer. :thumbsup:

[Mrpearlzildjian]

Yea, I have no friggin clue what it is... it's gotta be something in the settings or somewhere else, I mean that's really all I can think of, I don't know why the tools worked for you, but they still don't work for me oddly enough. I know it's a flat grey, but that doesn't make any sense why I cannot even simply change the color at all... I suppose I'll just flatten it and continue.. it is just a concept after all.

[eyecon]

I'm not sure if this will solve your problem...

Are you familiar with the "CHANNELS"? If not then look for a window that has that name. There should be 3 channels there... if your using RGB then there would be a RED, BLUE and GREEN channel... Your problem might be because you activated (picked) chosen one of those layers hence your painting in Grey...

SO this is what you do... Pick the top channel "RGB layer" and all will be selected then go back to Layers and that might solve your problem.

This usually happens when you activate a certain channel via hotkeys... Which is ctrl+~ to 3

Hope this helps... :thumbsup: :bounce:

[Mrpearlzildjian]

I wish that was it man, lol. RGB channels are full checked out. The link is on my last post if you care to take a stab. The other guy who tried it here said everything worked for him just fine..so I have no idea.

[Rockhoppermedia]

Nothing happening here either dude. In levels you can turn on monochromatic channels and alter the amount using the bottom slider.

I dont know how you have locked a layer, it confused me. Try separating each layer to a new file. So you have four files. Then import using control v and drag into new composition dont forget to hold down the shift.

I dont understand your workflow. I normally when doing character painting have a base layer line drawing. Then base colour layer. Shadow layer, mid tone layer, highlight layer.

By looking at the painting done it has no foundation levels. For the back ground layer Control J turn off the background layer. might help.

If you submit a PSD to any forum please please please label your layers. Common courtesey so we can reverse engineer your problem.

Why are you changing your hue and saturation on a figure? I dont understand, that is final part of the workflow.

Why is it in 16 bit format when 8 will do. That will seriously slow down your computer render time.

I have spent ages trying to work out your problem, you have a bad layer admin which is not helping. Also please tell us what effect you are after, there are five ways minimum of achieving the same goal in photoshop.

Have you experimented with the blending modes.

Also finally there are rare occasions photoshop psd files get corrupted. Not your fault just the way the algorithym crumbles.

I have honestly tried to find your fault probaly something basic that I have missed. Hopefully somebody could help you. Also remember when submitting a file think of the poor shmo who has to scratch his head wondering what you are up to.

Sorry to be so negative, have tried cant help

Rich

[Xdreamer79]

Hmm, hue/sat works for me quite well. Why don't you put your linework on top and set the layer to multiply (see attachment)?

[Quadart]

I down loaded your file and realize why you may be having some problems.
In CS3, if your using Brightness/Contrast on an actual layer (not as an adjustment layer above it) you have to make sure ‘Use Legacy’ is checked.

Levels wont work on your layers 1,2, and 4 because they are black. Layer 3 is black and only appears grey due to lowered opacity. It looks like you lowered the opacity then merged it with a blank layer below. Levels will work on greys not black, Birghtness/Contrast will alter black.

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