Blending two photos, opacity doesn't work

[Patrick Bell]

I have two tif images as layers. I want to reposition one over the other but opacity seems to do nothing. What am I doing wrong?

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[carl123]

Seems to work fine here

Changing the Opacity of the Moon layer in the Layers panel does what it's supposed to do

Make sure you have that (Moon) layer selected and are using the Layers panel opacity slider

If still not working for you we may need a video

[Patrick Bell]

Thanks.

 

So whats the Opacity bar above the layers/channels/brushes tabs for then? The one I have been usiing d'oh.

[stokerg]

1 minute ago, Patrick Bell said:

So whats the Opacity bar above the layers/channels/brushes tabs for then? The one I have been usiing d'oh.

That's for controlling the Opacity of a Colour.  For example, if you had the Paintbrush tool selected and wanted to paint red with 50% Opacity applied, you'd select Red and then set that slider to 50%.

 

[GarryP]

In addition to the advice above, the tab names – Colour, Brushes, Layers, Channels, etc. – are at the top of their respective Panels; there’s nothing in those panels above the tab name which is related to that panel.

In other words, the stuff in a panel is always underneath the name of that panel.

This can be seen more clearly if you – temporarily – drag a panel out of a studio – see attached image.