Burn tool not working on specific layer

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February 3, 2024
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Hi im working on a assigment for class and im trying to add shading into food for a food tray, but the layer will not let me use the burn tool to make it darker. I have no idea why this is happening if anyone has a fix or work around id greatly appeeciate it.

Snack_Tray_P1-1a.zip

macOS

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c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Could you please post screenshots taken at View > 100% with all the pertinent Panels (Toolbar, Layers, Options Bar, …) visible?

What are the Tool’s settings?

I would recommend not using the Burn Tool on the actual Layer for something like this but to use a non-destructive approach instead.

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Dario8756Author

Participant

I figured out whats wrong with my burn tool. I am curous what you mean about the non destructive aproach.

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Changing a Layer’s pixels’ actual values without a way of undoing or modulating the change is generally a problematic approach, so using a non-destructive technique seems preferable to me. (Touch-up like clone stamping being a separate issue but even there a second Layer should be employed in my opinion.)

Adjustment Layers for example or do search for »non-destructive dodge and burn«.

Bojan Živković11378569

Community Expert

It seems that the content you want to edit is on Layer 3. Please select Layer 3 and try again. If it still does not work, please share a screenshot of the whole window, showing the Layers panel expanded and visible and the Burn tool active.

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Dario8756Author

Participant

I figured out what was wrong, I was on the wrong range setting. I appreciate the quick response regardless thank you!!

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