Selection not taking effect?

[LvH]

Likely doing something wrong, but for example:

- I use selection brush to select an eye

- I use recolour to satisfaction

- I clear the selection and make a selection of the other eye 

 

Now I click recolour again, but for some reason it recolours the previous selection again - it does not take effect in the newly selected area at all, it keeps recolouring the previous selection no matter how many times I clear and re-select.

[toltec]

 

17 hours ago, LvH said:

 

 

Now I click recolour again, but for some reason it recolours the previous selection again - it does not take effect in the newly selected area at all, it keeps recolouring the previous selection no matter how many times I clear and re-select.

 

Hello LvH  

 

You have to apply a new Recolour Adjustment Layer to the second selection.

 

One Recolour Adjustment layer for each.

 

Edit. The method above is if you wish to apply a different adjustment to each selection area.

 

To apply the same adjustment to more than one selection area, select all the desired areas first, (making sure Add is selected.on the Context Toolbar)

 

then apply the adjustment layer. It will be applied to all the selected areas at once. e.g.

 

Original

 

Both eyes selected

 

One Recolour Adjustment applied.

 

Result

 

[h_d]

Add a single Recolour adjustment layer, invert it, paint white over the eyes, adjust:

 

eyecolour-desktop.m4v

 

(.afphoto file attached)

catseyes.afphoto

 

 

(adjustment layers are their own masks)

[firstdefence]

You could also use a gradient map adjustment to get some funky effects

[toltec]

7 hours ago, h_d said:

Add a single Recolour adjustment layer, invert it, paint white over the eyes, adjust:

 

 

Good point, from reading the OPs post, I took it he wanted separate recolour adjustments but unless the subject has Heterochromia  (or the OP wishes to simulate the condition) I guess that does not make much sense .I edited my first post to avoid confusing him.

 

[h_d]

9 hours ago, firstdefence said:

get some funky effects

 

 

A differently coloured recolour adjustment for each eye, then an HSL adjustment on top of that:

 

 

different eyes-desktop.m4v

 

[Alfred]

4 hours ago, toltec said:

from reading the OPs post, I took it he wanted separate recolour adjustments

 

That’s what I thought, too! Why else would you recolour one eye, clear the selection and then attempt to recolour the other eye, instead of selecting both at the same time in the first place?

 

[h_d]

I get it! (I think...)

 

When the OP creates his first selection, it is automatically saved as a mask on the adjustment layer.

 

 

When the OP deselects and then creates a new selection, the newly selected area is not added to the mask

 

 

To apply the adjustment to the newly selected area, the OP needs to make sure the adjustment layer is selected, and fill the new selection with white:

 

 

The second selection area is now added to the mask, and the single adjustment will apply to both areas.

 

 

 

[Alfred]

25 minutes ago, h_d said:

When the OP deselects and then creates a new selection, the newly selected area is not added to the mask

 

Quite so. What I was saying is that instead of selecting one eye, adjusting it and then selecting the other one, you should do as @toltec suggested: select both eyes (the first in ‘New’ mode and the second in ‘Add’ mode) and only then make your adjustment.

[LvH]

Hi,

 

Thank you for all the replies

Yes I agree, normally changing both eyes at once would be easier; but that's not the scenario. 

The "problem" is mostly a difference in lighting where I feel the same saturation just doesn't look too good, so I wanted to do them separately with slightly different colours and saturation.

In the original picture the color is a bit different as well. (One eye is hit by the sun and gets a yellowish glow, the other is in the shade and is more greenish.)

 

I've looked at all your suggestions, and only now from your screenshots noticed the "merge" button.

If I make a selection, change the color, then hit "merge", then undo all selection and select the other eye: suddenly, the selection *will* actually take effect.

It's still a bit confusing to me that making a new selection doesn't take effect at all but it keeps changing the now unselected area, but hitting 'merge' seems to fix it instantly.

Or is that the totally wrong way of going about it?

[firstdefence]

5 minutes ago, LvH said:

Hi,

 

Thank you for all the replies

Yes I agree, normally changing both eyes at once would be easier; but that's not the scenario. 

The "problem" is mostly a difference in lighting where I feel the same saturation just doesn't look too good, so I wanted to do them separately with slightly different colours and saturation.

 

I've looked at all your suggestions, and only now from your screenshots noticed the "merge" button.

If I make a selection, change the color, then hit "merge", then undo all selection and select the other eye: suddenly, the selection *will* actually take effect.

It's still a bit confusing to me that making a new selection doesn't take effect at all but it keeps changing the now unselected area, but hitting 'merge' seems to fix it instantly.

Merging is a non destructive process and will create a new merged layer but keep all the layers used to merge.