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marcusd37595100
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May 12, 2018
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Reverting back to original background image after tweaking

  • May 12, 2018
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Greeting and salutations,

I am doing a simple blue sky background behind a house. Have it all the way to select and mask, with properties in view mode working in view mode, with smooth, contrast, shift edge faders etc. This last feature has taken an impossibly blue sky to make it seem much more realistic. The issue I am having is that when I go to click ok, or if I try to save as, it reverts back to the layer with the fake looking blue sky and does not let me save the more realistic looking background that the select and mask feature and subsequent view mode faders have created. I have tried everything and it is just not saving what I have done at the very end.  TIA for any and all direction and input on this.

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    Correct answer davescm

    You are misunderstanding the transparency setting in Select and Mask.

    The transparency setting is not the transparency of the final mask, it only sets the transparency of the preview in Select and Mask. It is used so that, whilst making your mask, you can see to paint in  or paint out areas that you would not see if you were just looking at the final mask. To see what the final mask will look like - set transparency to 100%

    Dave

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    josephlavine
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    josephlavineCommunity Expert
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    May 13, 2018

    Posting a screen capture of your Layers and Mask settings should help everyone diagnose the issue.

    thanks

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    marcusd37595100Author
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    May 14, 2018

    Thank you all for these great suggestions. You guys are the best! I am a total beginner so I thought it may be most advantageous to post a video of what is happening. Please see link below. TIA!\

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eWuU6oNJYc1qrafF5sosY7hE3TkrSCAV/view?usp=drivesdk

    davescm
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    davescmCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    May 14, 2018

    You are misunderstanding the transparency setting in Select and Mask.

    The transparency setting is not the transparency of the final mask, it only sets the transparency of the preview in Select and Mask. It is used so that, whilst making your mask, you can see to paint in  or paint out areas that you would not see if you were just looking at the final mask. To see what the final mask will look like - set transparency to 100%

    Dave

    D Fosse
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    D FosseCommunity Expert
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    May 13, 2018

    Try a Selective Color adjustment layer. Most likely you don't need masking at all.

    Norman Sanders
    Norman Sanders
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    May 12, 2018

    Could the file be locked, not permitting you to Save changes to the file?

    When you wrote "tried everything"... what have you tried?

    Myra Ferguson
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    Myra FergusonCommunity Expert
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    May 12, 2018

    If I'm understanding correctly, it sounds like all the work you did was in Select and Mask. Those sliders affect only the selection (mask) that after clicking OK, Photoshop lets you apply whatever changes to that selection only. After clicking OK in Select and Mask, try clicking on the Add Layer Mask button at the bottom of the Layer Panel. Then you can see what has been selected. 

    Now there are lots of ways to adjust the color to that selected area. I suspect you may have had white at some level of opacity showing your selection which you may have thought was adjusting the sky color. So here's one way to actually apply white. You can make a duplicate of that layer, delete the layer mask on the bottom later. Then double click the top layer to open up Layer Styles. Click Color Overlay on the left, then click on it so that Color Overlay highlights and its options open on the right. Then select white for the color and change the opacity to what you might have had it in Select and Mask.

    Instead of the layer styles, you could also apply an adjustment layer to that layer only. Here's more info on those Adjustment and fill layers in Photoshop

    davescm
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    davescmCommunity Expert
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    May 12, 2018

    What are your "output to" settings in Select And Mask ?

    Dave

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