Computer Graphics with Photoshop - Layer blending: "Color" vs. "Normal"

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Layer blending: "Color" vs. "Normal"

Usual Suspect

2007-06-17, 6:14 pm

This 5-step tutorial shows how to deal with skin highlights in a photo:

<http://www.creativetechs.com/iq/qui..._photoshop.html>

It states to create a new layer and set the blending mode to "Color".

If I do this, when I fill the selection with a sample of skin color, it
appears to not work. The fill is transparent, and no adjustment of the
transparency slider seems to change this. It's as if I the fill failed.

But if I leave blending at "Normal", the procedure seems to work: the fill is
opaque and I can adjust the transparency using the slider in the Layers
pallet.

Did I miss something? Or are the instructions wrong?

Thanks,
--
Al, the usual

tacit

2007-06-17, 6:14 pm

In article <0001HW.C29ACCEA00418CFDF01826C8@news.sf.sbcglobal.net>,
Usual Suspect <reply@thegroup.net> wrote:

> If I do this, when I fill the selection with a sample of skin color, it
> appears to not work. The fill is transparent, and no adjustment of the
> transparency slider seems to change this. It's as if I the fill failed.
>
> But if I leave blending at "Normal", the procedure seems to work: the fill is
> opaque and I can adjust the transparency using the slider in the Layers
> pallet.
>
> Did I miss something? Or are the instructions wrong?

When you fill a layer with color and set its Blending mode to Color, it
changes the color, and ONLY the color, of all the layers below it.

Fill the layer with purple and you'll see what I mean.

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KatWoman

2007-06-17, 6:14 pm

"Usual Suspect" <reply@thegroup.net> wrote in message
news:0001HW.C29ACCEA00418CFDF01826C8@news.sf.sbcglobal.net...
> This 5-step tutorial shows how to deal with skin highlights in a photo:
>
> <http://www.creativetechs.com/iq/qui..._photoshop.html>
>
>
> It states to create a new layer and set the blending mode to "Color".
>
> If I do this, when I fill the selection with a sample of skin color, it
> appears to not work. The fill is transparent, and no adjustment of the
> transparency slider seems to change this. It's as if I the fill failed.
>
> But if I leave blending at "Normal", the procedure seems to work: the fill
> is
> opaque and I can adjust the transparency using the slider in the Layers
> pallet.
>
> Did I miss something? Or are the instructions wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Al, the usual

I fix hotspots with the clone tool set on color mode
use large soft brush opacity set to 50-75 usually works
sample nearby non aligned