Painting on masks

[Tr48]

Hi

Please tell me why I cannot paint on this mask to refine it.  

It's part of a series of club discussion - choices... does one add sky, or clone, or crop etc?  

Process used:  select sky and invert.  press mask icon, deselect.  Add JR sky and reorder stack.  Adjust sky using JR Macro.  Select mask layer and choose brush [D to colour B&W; X to alternate]  Painting has no effect whatsoever.  Brush settings at max opacity etc and preserve alpha ticked as way of checking I'm not daft...

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[PaulEC]

10 minutes ago, Tr48 said:

preserve alpha ticked

Untick it!

11 minutes ago, Tr48 said:

as way of checking I'm not daft...

I don't understand this!

[Alfred]

14 minutes ago, Tr48 said:

Brush settings at max opacity etc

Try changing the opacity of the brush rather than its colour.

This question doesn’t belong in the ‘Share your work’ forum. Perhaps a moderator will move it.

[NotMyFault]

Most frequent cause if one brush color does not work:

• blend mode of brush changed from normal 

[NotMyFault]

If brush is not working, test the following:

• create new pixel layer and test if brush is working there
• create a new document and test if brush is working
• check colors (black and white and 100 color  opacity)
• brush blend mode
• did you use regular brush or by accident erase brush, undo brush etc?
• protect alpha

[Tr48]

OK topic closed.  No answer likely from this set of replies.  

PaulEC - get a sense of humour!  Checking obvious...

NotMyFault - I covered all your points in first post!

Alfred - sorry to offend your tidy mind.

 

[Ldina]

@Tr48 I know... topic closed. BTW, people are just trying to help. 

FWIW, I opened your file then immediately started painting on the mask. It worked perfectly for me (MacBook Pro, APhoto 2.5.3), so either you are doing something wrong, or perhaps there is some hardware glitch on your end. Below are screen shots, one painting on the mask with a hard white brush, one with a hard black brush. I used a hard brush just to make it obvious in your image. I also included the entire screen to show all contextual choices for the paintbrush. 

EDIT:  BTW, a few days ago I DID have a mask that only allowed me to paint on it with Black (or white...I forget which). Something was odd with that layer or mask, and I'm pretty experienced with masks, so I finally deleted that layer, re-added the layer and mask, and everything worked fine again. I didn't change any brush options, so I don't know if it was something I did or a software glitch. I haven't had that happen before or since, and haven't been able to replicate it. Perhaps you have experienced something similar, but then again, the file I downloaded worked perfectly for me. FWIW.

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, Ldina said:

FWIW, I opened your file then immediately started painting on the mask. It worked perfectly for me...

Same for me. I'm also unsure about what @Tr48 meant when he said above that in the first post he covered all the points @NotMyFault mentioned, but maybe that's just me.

[Alfred]

1 hour ago, R C-R said:

Same for me. I'm also unsure about what @Tr48 meant when he said above that in the first post he covered all the points @NotMyFault mentioned, but maybe that's just me.

No, it’s not just you! @Tr48 mentioned ‘preserve’ (i.e. protect) alpha, but I don’t see anything about the brush blend mode or whether a regular brush was used.

[NotMyFault]

10 hours ago, Tr48 said:

OK topic closed.  No answer likely from this set of replies.  

PaulEC - get a sense of humour!  Checking obvious...

NotMyFault - I covered all your points in first post!

Alfred - sorry to offend your tidy mind.

Please check your attitude in this forum. Why so negative / aggressive ? Several users tried to help you.

BTW: as others already pointed out: You did not cover all my recommendations in your first post, specifically blend mode of brush (not layer blend mode). To verify, could you please upload a screenshot of the full application window?

[Old Bruce]

On 8/11/2024 at 3:15 AM, Tr48 said:

Please tell me why I cannot paint on this mask to refine it.  

I am thinking it might have something to do with the following, whatever the following actually does may have an effect.

On 8/11/2024 at 3:15 AM, Tr48 said:

Add JR sky and reorder stack.  Adjust sky using JR Macro.  

Because when I do the following:

On 8/11/2024 at 3:15 AM, Tr48 said:

 Select mask layer and choose brush [D to colour B&W; X to alternate]  

I can mask out the bit of sky in the upper left with no difficulty. Not sure why I would want to have that corner transparent but I can do it.