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Masking: Swapping colors having no effect with brush


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This has happened a few times to me with the latest version of AP. While masking an image, the brush will either decide to always be white or always be black regardless of which color I choose.

The setup for this image is simple. Original background layer was duplicated. That layer was inverted with the blend mode set to "color" and the visibility of that layer set to 50%. This gives me a simple 50% grey layer to work on masking. After roughing in the mask, the brush color becomes stuck on black (this hides the grey layer). Unfortunately, that isn't very good for masking.

Any ideas what is going on?

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Judging by what’s on the context toolbar you seem to be using the Paint Mixer Brush tool brush rather than the Paint Brush tool. Is that correct?
I tried to replicate what you did – including adding the Live Unsharp Mask filter as seen in the video but not the text – with both tools and didn’t get the same results but I’m not using the same original image or exact mouse gestures.

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No, using the paint brush. There is no text in the image, no text layers.

As you can see (larger pic would have been better, but uploading and space taken into consideration) a good bit of masking has already taken place. After a few minutes of masking work, this happens with or without any live filters as well as on other masking projects. It's just that last evening I was trying to throw off the day's anxiety by doing a bit of work that I enjoy.

Not sure why this happens . . . the selection tools won't let me come even close with most images, so the only way to finish them off is masking. Well, if the selection tool isn't going to come close, I just avoid them altogether and completely mask the portions by eye. Then this often happens where no more progress is possible.

Yes, if I restart the software and reopen the image things go back to normal --- sometimes just for a while, and sometimes I can finish the project. Shouldn't have to keep restarting the software to complete a masking operation.

 

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33 minutes ago, Smee Again said:

No, using the paint brush.

Are you sure?

As mentioned above they have different context toolbar.

 

Paint_Brush_Tool.png

Paint_Mixer_Brush.png

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58 minutes ago, Smee Again said:

After the aforementioned setup, I press "B" which should give me the brush tool. It shouldn't give me anything else, and it definitely shouldn't change on its own during editing.

All that may or may not be true, depending on (a) what shortcuts you have defined and (b) your preference choice for image.png.09a573b5d09582600d971ab5e599a939.png and (c) how many times you pressed B.

If that option is off, then pressing B multiple times will cycle through all the brushes that have B as their shortcut. By default that's the Paint Brush Tool, the Color Replacement Brush Tool, and the Pixel Tool. However, you could have changed that so that B applies only to the Paint Brush Tool, in which case pressing B a second time would take you to the previous tool you had selected, which could have been the Color Replacement Brush. Or you could have changed it so B applies to both the Paint Brush and the Color Replacement Brush.

 

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