Skin Retouching Tutorial Pt. 1 Discussion

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  Hans Rudolf Registered Users Posts: 1 Beginner grinner

  November 24, 2009 edited November 24, 2009

  I have looked at the section in your tutorial where you colour correct the baby's face. I am puzzled by the instruction "Set a curve adjustment layer and fill the layermask with black"
  The default colour with adjustment layers and layermask colours is white (CS3)
  How on earth can I change the layer mask from white to black? I tried all sorts of ways, and all are equally unsucessful. Ta Hans

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  DavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins

  November 24, 2009 edited November 24, 2009

  Hans Rudolf wrote:

  I have looked at the section in your tutorial where you colour correct the baby's face. I am puzzled by the instruction "Set a curve adjustment layer and fill the layermask with black"
  The default colour with adjustment layers and layermask colours is white (CS3)
  How on earth can I change the layer mask from white to black? I tried all sorts of ways, and all are equally unsucessful. Ta Hans

  
  
  Set your colors so that black is the foreground color, then hit opt-delete on a Mac (I assume it's alt-delete on a PC) and it will fill the mask with the foreground color.

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  BinaryFx Registered Users Posts: 707 Major grins

  November 25, 2009 edited November 25, 2009

  Target the layer mask in the layers palette, then cmd/ctrl-I (invert)...
  
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  Target the layer in question, go to the channel palette, target the layer mask channel and then invert (as layer masks are simply special channels that are "bound" to the current active layer).
  
  
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