My Brush made my layer partially transparent & I don't remember how I did it

[Wayne Burrows]

Hello All,

I created this transparency effect a couple of months ago by happenstance - I now want to recreate what I did but I cannot remember what I did to bring about this effect. Please take a look at the attached video clip. Hopefully, somebody is familiar with how I made this happen. I've gone through all of my brushes but none of them are giving me this partial transparency effect, so I must have done something else when I put this together, but since I am pretty new at this, it was done completely by accident. #HELP

Thanks!

WB

 

[carl123]

If you place a white pixel layer on top of the page then use the Erase Brush Tool with one of your "smoke" brushes you may get a similar effect.

 

But in your screenshot, it does not look like you have used a brush on that layer as there is no brush icon on it. But then again it may have been rasterised after a brush was used on it. Hard to say what you did previously.

[Brian_J]

The Erase Brush Tool was my first thought as well. It looks like the "Solutions Begin On The Next Page" text was merged with the page curl layer for some reason — if you used the Erase Brush Tool, I'm guessing you used it on the page curl layer before merging it with the text. Alternatively, I suppose you could have masked the text before erasing... it would have been a lot of work to erase around the text.

[NotMyFault]

I would recommend to inspect the layers individually in Photo, using channels panel and focus on alpha. 
This will allow to see if the alpha channel has been edited by a brush which probably leaves some visible traces.

[Wayne Burrows]

54 minutes ago, carl123 said:

 But then again it may have been rasterised after a brush was used on it.

I did rasterize it in order to create the page curl effect.

I'll try the pixel layer and see what I can do.

Thanks

[Wayne Burrows]

39 minutes ago, Brian_J said:

The Erase Brush Tool was my first thought as well. It looks like the "Solutions Begin On The Next Page" text was merged with the page curl layer for some reason

I have been trying to figure out when in the process and how exactly did I add the text. My memory has been horrible for decades - I don't recall anything that I did then. The only thing that I can say for certain is that I didn't use the Erase Brush tool back then because I knew nothing about how to use it at that time. Lol

[Wayne Burrows]

26 minutes ago, NotMyFault said:

I would recommend to inspect the layers individually in Photo, using channels panel and focus on alpha. 
This will allow to see if the alpha channel has been edited by a brush which probably leaves some visible traces.

I know of the channels panel but working with it is still over my head for right now. I've saved a handful of YT videos that goes over using the channels panel though, so I can look into it and try out what you described.

Thanks

[Old Bruce]

What you may have done is started with a Clear Pixel layer and then painted White with varying levels of transparency over the whole layer. Then an Art Text layer (or two) to have the "Solutions... " text and however you made the page curl. A final Group and Rasterize would give you the result you see.