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Posted on 16/11/10 11:41:49 AM |
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Andrea abbott
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Stuck on knife reflection and making clipping mask
Ok I have done most of the image but being new to CS I have CS5 I havent a clue how to create a clipping mask also it says flip the notes well I have tried flip horizontally and flip vertically and it just does not flip them correctly in one word HELP oh and make it simple , The how to cheat in elements books were more explanatory then this one  |
Posted on 16/11/10 2:21:44 PM |
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Jota120
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Re: Stuck on knife reflection and making clipping mask
Andrea, 1) Clipping Mask: After you have duplicated the top notes layer above the knife with the copied layer active you can create the Clipping mask by right click on the layer and in the drop-down menue select Create Clipping Mask. The layer icon will then be indented and linked with an arrow to the layer below. 2) Flip and distort: You need to do more than just flip horizontal. After flipped you need to Distort, ......the difficult part as Steve says. Select Edit, in the drop-down menu select Transform, in the second menu select "Distort". You then need to adjust the handles to distort to get the correct effect. To apply when happy press enter. Before edit it often helps to reduce layer opacity to get view of relation with lower layer, and when finished put back to 100%. You could also convert to a smart object before distort, but that is another issue and you don't have to here. Hope this helps. Sorry more than one word and probably not very clear/simple. |
Posted on 16/11/10 4:34:54 PM |
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Andrea abbott
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Re: Stuck on knife reflection and making clipping mask
Its simple enough also another issue I am having is creating a group, I use a Mac and press cmd and place the arrow between the two layers and nothing the only way i can create any sort of grouping is to click on the little folder icon at the very bottom of the layers stack, what am i doing wrong? |
Posted on 16/11/10 6:31:49 PM |
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Jota120
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Re: Stuck on knife reflection and making clipping mask
Andrea, Well I work with PC, but I'm sure it works with Mac. You need to select all the layers. They become highlighted. (same as you select several files(?) I do it several ways. I'm sure you do that, it works the same PS for the layers). So in PS for the layers do the same, select the ones you want in the group. I think this works the same way with Mac. Assuming your layers you want to group are sequencial, highlight the first, hold shift while press the last in sequence. All layers should be highlighted. Then right click and from the menu select Group (there are short-cuts for this, but another story, Steve loves them and I can't do without some of them). A folder will appear, closed and all you layers are in there.Click/click to open and close it. Great fun ->you can copy layer groups, so if get it wrong can go back and delete all the bad work did afterwards, with tears in eyes;, but still have copy of the group to start from again  .
(Aside: If you just press the folder you create a new one, but you have not specified the information you want in it, accoring to my use, but I don't do that. You have to for example drag-and-drop the layers into it) Photoshop takes a while to learn basics, but once beyond that very powerful and can be very rapid. Its not simple though. |
Posted on 16/11/10 10:05:54 PM |
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Andrea abbott
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Re: Stuck on knife reflection and making clipping mask
Thank you Jota I will try that, I havent owned photoshop that long, about 6 mths all told, so still learning. Its great to get some honest advice instead of just being dismissed as if you should know how to use every tool and trick in the programme |
Posted on 17/11/10 07:15:15 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Stuck on knife reflection and making clipping mask
Andrea, Keep asking the questions - that's what the forum is here for! Steve |