It isn’t often I can’t figure something out in Adobeware, maybe I’m just not looking in the right place or it just doesn’t work this way.
In Photoshop, is it possible to apply a Multiply Mode to one layer, group it with one or two other Multiply mode layers, and set that group to Normal Mode so the group keeps its multiply features but Overlays solid (doesn’t interact with) the layers below it?
I think that made sense. I don’t think it’s possible but I’m not a photoshop pro.
Alternatively, would some kind of masking layer work to isolate the multiply modes above a normal mode layer?
Lemme try that, but I don’t think that’s it. Let me also see if I can come up with an example. Might take a night or two. Sketching fingers aren’t working tonight…or the tablet is being ornery. (I’m sure it’s the fingers.)
I did try this and it didn’t work. Though it did produce a really cool effect over the entire art.
Still working on an example, couldn’t use the art I’m working on without linking myself on a different forum and I don’t want to do that…LOL.
Basically picture 3 transparent layers interacting with each other, like smoke and fire, all set to multiply.
Now I want to place that over a solid background layer without the background layer bleeding through the multiply.
I’m guessing now that that would involve a masking layer between them. Maybe a copy>merge>and somehow convert the colors to white.
I have never had to actually create Art in Photoshop. I just print files other people make. I know my way around like a kid with a hammer. This isn’t for a paying job either so I’m not worried about not knowing what I’m doing and neither are the recipients. It’s just that after one go at letting someone else colorize my inked art, I have to learn to do it myself if I want what I see in my head.
Hmmm, that gives a little better idea, but without seeing it makes it tricky to see the issue. It may not work, but you can cmnd (mac) / ctrl (PC) click on one of your three layers and then shift-cmnd/ctrl click on the other two layers that will create a mask/selection of all three layers (including their level of opacity). You could then create a layer just below those three layers and experiment with filling with white, or a neutral gray of some sort, which would act as a base layer which the other 3 layers would “sit on top of”.
Once again without seeing it, it’s just a bit if guesswork at the moment.
yes, in a rough way, but taking the cloud edges to transparent over the background and the flame edges transparent over the cloud (without showing the red background.) I think that is where the issue lies in my hammer and chisel approach. I sort of figured out a way to do it with an underspot of “white ink” but was wondering if (hoping) there was a slicker way.