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How to resize an adjustment layer and apply to another document
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| lanegroups@go.com 2005-06-20, 7:16 pm |
| Hi,
I'm trying to do this
1. resize a big graphic file (FILEA) to a smaller one (FILEB)
2. add adjustment layer to adjust the curves, levels etc on the smaller
file FILEB
3. Apply the layers for FILEB back to FILEA; <-- At this step, the
adjustment layers form fileB is too small so they only apply to a very
small area of FILEA.
How to resize the adjustment layers from FILEB and apply it to FILEA?
Thanks,
Lan
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| lanegroups@go.com wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to do this
> 1. resize a big graphic file (FILEA) to a smaller one (FILEB)
> 2. add adjustment layer to adjust the curves, levels etc on the smaller
> file FILEB
> 3. Apply the layers for FILEB back to FILEA; <-- At this step, the
> adjustment layers form fileB is too small so they only apply to a very
> small area of FILEA.
>
> How to resize the adjustment layers from FILEB and apply it to FILEA?
>
> Thanks,
> Lan
>
Adjustment Layers don't have size. You must have a mask on it. Unlink or
ditch the mask.
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| lanegroups@go.com 2005-06-20, 11:14 pm |
| How to "ditch" the mask?
Thanks!
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| In article <1119306486.438266.54050@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
lanegroups@go.com wrote:
> 3. Apply the layers for FILEB back to FILEA; <-- At this step, the
> adjustment layers form fileB is too small so they only apply to a very
> small area of FILEA.
An adjustment layer is never a "size." However, it does have a mask
associated with it. While in the adjustment layer, select all and fill
with white and you will apply that adjustment layer to the entire image.
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| Look in the layers palette. There are two icons. The one of the left is
for the adustments. The one on the right is the mask. You can click and
hold on the mask icon and then drag it to the layer trash can. PS will
ask if you want to discard the mask. Just say yes.
You should know too that you can drag layers between documents. Again,
click and hold on the layer of file A, then drag onto the image of file B.
dp
lanegroups@go.com wrote:
> How to "ditch" the mask?
> Thanks!
>
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| KatWoman 2005-06-21, 7:15 pm |
| alternatively, you can save the levels adjustments and reuse them.
In the palette for levels use save.... then open the new document hit levels
and then use LOAD. You could automate an action to save time if you need to
do a lot of files.
<lanegroups@go.com> wrote in message
news:1119306486.438266.54050@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
> I'm trying to do this
> 1. resize a big graphic file (FILEA) to a smaller one (FILEB)
> 2. add adjustment layer to adjust the curves, levels etc on the smaller
> file FILEB
> 3. Apply the layers for FILEB back to FILEA; <-- At this step, the
> adjustment layers form fileB is too small so they only apply to a very
> small area of FILEA.
>
> How to resize the adjustment layers from FILEB and apply it to FILEA?
>
> Thanks,
> Lan
>
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| lanegroups@go.com 2005-06-21, 7:15 pm |
| I actually don't want to throw away the mask. Instead, I want to resize
the mask to the same size of the bigger file. None of the answers above
showed how to resize the mask.
To be more specific
1. resize a big graphic file (FILEA) to a smaller one (FILEB)
2. add adjustment layer to adjust the curves, levels etc on the smaller
file FILEB. Masks are applied to the layers
3. Apply the layers for FILEB back to FILEA; <-- At this step, the
adjustment layers and their masks form fileB is too small so they only
apply to a very
small area of FILEA.
How to resize the masks to fit the bigger file?
Thanks!
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| KatWoman 2005-06-21, 7:15 pm |
| why resize first? why work on the smaller image first? that is not good
workflow, I would do the artwork on the largest file available then save
smaller copies later.
make the smaller B image the same size/res as the larger A and then drag
over? then close B without saving?
<lanegroups@go.com> wrote in message
news:1119385394.519905.102960@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>I actually don't want to throw away the mask. Instead, I want to resize
> the mask to the same size of the bigger file. None of the answers above
> showed how to resize the mask.
>
> To be more specific
> 1. resize a big graphic file (FILEA) to a smaller one (FILEB)
> 2. add adjustment layer to adjust the curves, levels etc on the smaller
>
> file FILEB. Masks are applied to the layers
> 3. Apply the layers for FILEB back to FILEA; <-- At this step, the
> adjustment layers and their masks form fileB is too small so they only
> apply to a very
> small area of FILEA.
>
> How to resize the masks to fit the bigger file?
>
> Thanks!
>
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| lanegroups@go.com wrote:
> I actually don't want to throw away the mask. Instead, I want to resize
> the mask to the same size of the bigger file. None of the answers above
> showed how to resize the mask.
>
> To be more specific
> 1. resize a big graphic file (FILEA) to a smaller one (FILEB)
> 2. add adjustment layer to adjust the curves, levels etc on the smaller
>
> file FILEB. Masks are applied to the layers
> 3. Apply the layers for FILEB back to FILEA; <-- At this step, the
> adjustment layers and their masks form fileB is too small so they only
> apply to a very
> small area of FILEA.
>
> How to resize the masks to fit the bigger file?
>
> Thanks!
>
Ah! You didn't ask that. Click on the mask and use Edit>Transform.
--
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http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/edjh.html
Comics art for sale:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/batsale.html
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| Peter Wollenberg 2005-06-22, 4:14 am |
| "KatWoman" <JolieXPrincessXKatanaXXX@hotmail.com> wrote:
>why resize first? why work on the smaller image first? that is not good
>workflow, I would do the artwork on the largest file available then save
>smaller copies later.
I humbly beg to differ, ma jolie princesse. Consider a huge scan e.g.
of a 4x5" negative at 2400 dpi. It will be much smaller when stored as
a high quality jpeg and the loss from saving as a HQ jpeg once is
usually not visible (we are not talking about a jing jang symbol
here). If one wants to make adjustments (curves, color balance,
monochrome via channel mixer etc) it is convenient to make these on a
really small copy of the original and store this small copy as a psd
file together with the jpeg which is left untouched. This has several
advantages. 1. a lot of disk space is saved, 2. original data is
neither changed nor degraded, 3. new versions of the image are created
by simply loading the original jpeg together with the small psd file,
modifying the adjustment layers in the psd file, saving this file as a
new version and moving the adjustment layers to the jpeg. The modified
image is sent to the print shop/customer. There is no need to resave
the modified image on the hard disk because the information is in the
psd file. In this way, several versions of a huge image can easily be
kept at a negligible consumption of disk space.
Peter
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| lanegroups@go.com 2005-06-22, 7:14 pm |
| Yes, it works! Thanks!
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| KatWoman 2005-06-22, 7:14 pm |
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"Peter Wollenberg" <jenelisepasceci@web.de> wrote in message
news:42b90577.741625@134.96.4.2...
> "KatWoman" <JolieXPrincessXKatanaXXX@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
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> I humbly beg to differ, ma jolie princesse. Consider a huge scan e.g.
> of a 4x5" negative at 2400 dpi. It will be much smaller when stored as
> a high quality jpeg and the loss from saving as a HQ jpeg once is
> usually not visible (we are not talking about a jing jang symbol
> here). If one wants to make adjustments (curves, color balance,
> monochrome via channel mixer etc) it is convenient to make these on a
> really small copy of the original and store this small copy as a psd
> file together with the jpeg which is left untouched. This has several
> advantages. 1. a lot of disk space is saved, 2. original data is
> neither changed nor degraded, 3. new versions of the image are created
> by simply loading the original jpeg together with the small psd file,
> modifying the adjustment layers in the psd file, saving this file as a
> new version and moving the adjustment layers to the jpeg. The modified
> image is sent to the print shop/customer. There is no need to resave
> the modified image on the hard disk because the information is in the
> psd file. In this way, several versions of a huge image can easily be
> kept at a negligible consumption of disk space.
>
> Peter
that is a good point, but I never have had that situation.
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| johnboy 2005-06-22, 11:14 pm |
| "Peter Wollenberg" <jenelisepasceci@web.de> wrote
> In this way, several versions of a huge image can easily be
> kept at a negligible consumption of disk space.
Who worries about disc space anymore?
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| Peter Wollenberg 2005-06-23, 4:15 am |
| "johnboy" <okaynow@nospam.no> wrote:
>"Peter Wollenberg" <jenelisepasceci@web.de> wrote
>
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>Who worries about disc space anymore?
>
I am talking about files with a size of several hundred MB each. For
me, it makes a difference whether I waste 1 GB on just three versions
of such a file or 150 MB. Since I keep at least two backups of my
work, this sums up to 3 GB vs. 0,5 GB _per image_. If you need not
worry about this amount of storage/backup space, happy you.
Peter
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