Assistant only occasional work on mask brushing

[srg]

 

Hi,

I often create a layer over a subject, fill it with a suitable color, and brush on it to create a mask and  isolate the subject (the selection tool is never good enough in my hands).

When by mistake I brush over the active fill layer I often ruin everything not realizing what I did. Occasionally the assistant pops up telling me that he added a layer where my brush went, and that saves the mask.

It would be nice if the assistant would intervene every time I make a mistake. Is this possible?

 

[Old Bruce]

2 hours ago, srg said:

It would be nice if the assistant would intervene every time I make a mistake. Is this possible?

No, how can the assistant know that a wanted action is in fact a wanted action and not a mistake.

[srg]

15 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

No, how can the assistant know that a wanted action is in fact a wanted action and not a mistake.

for example telling him to do so, like in an option

[walt.farrell]

Sorry, but I don't understand what you're doing. Or perhaps, what you're doing differently when you: 

1. Create a layer, fill it, and brush on it.

Vs. 

2. Brushing on the active Fill layer and ruin it 

It signs like you're painting in a Full layer in both cases. So how is it "ruined" in the second case?

 

 

[srg]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

Sorry, but I don't understand what you're doing. Or perhaps, what you're doing differently when you: 

1. Create a layer, fill it, and brush on it.

Vs. 

2. Brushing on the active Fill layer and ruin it 

It signs like you're painting in a Full layer in both cases. So how is it "ruined" in the second case?

 

 

sorry about the confusion.

1) I create a layer and fill it with a color, reduce its opacity so I can see the subject in the layer underneath that I want to isolate. Add a mask layer.

2) I brush in the mask layer and create a mask. This is the plan.

At times, by mistake, I brush not in the mask layer, but in the fill layer and if I do not correct this  immediately I end up with a mess.

When I do this by error,  AP tells me that it added a new layer where my strokes went. And this is marvelous because I can erase this layer and I am good. But AP does this only occasionally and never in V2.

Hope to have been more clear.

 

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, srg said:

When I do this by error,  AP tells me that it added a new layer where my strokes went. And this is marvelous because I can erase this layer and I am good. But AP does this only occasionally and never in V2.

In AP V2 Preferences > Assistant do you have "Alert when assistant takes an action" enabled?

[srg]

I do

 

[NotMyFault]

The Assistent kicks in only in very specific situations:

• in case you have a pixel brush tool active, and try to paint or delete on a vector object (curve layer, vector shape, and their derivates), or group layer (in general any layer which is either bitmap, or contains a mask)
• in case you have a pixel brush tool active, and try to paint when no layer exists

If you try to use a pixel brush over adjustment, filter of fill layers: all these contain an inherent mask, so the brush usage allows you to edit the mask, and no assistant kicks in.

As you said 

15 hours ago, srg said:

When by mistake I brush over the active fill layer I often ruin everything not realizing what I did.

mentioning fill layers: the assistant will never add a pixel or mask layer.

In Photo, you can always save your day by channels panel, choose alpha, and fill. (If you edited the inherent mask by mistake).