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NoirDelire
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September 21, 2020
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Default color switch automaticaly

  • September 21, 2020
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Hello everyone,

 

I'm quite new to photoshop, and I have a problem I can't solve.

 

When I'm using mask, I'm sometimes confused because Photoshop switch my brush color from black to white whitout notice. Of course, it reverse the logic of my mask painting, and nothing work proprely until I fix it. It can be very frustrating to me, depending when it happens.

 

Up to now, my investigations lead me to no solution. I suspected this happens when I use the "D" key to get default color, and I wrote a script to  set default colors my way, but it doesn't work. 

 

How could I tell photoshop I want black to stay black, and not switching to white "magicaly" ?

 

Thanks

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c.pfaffenbichler
c.pfaffenbichler
Community Expert
September 21, 2020

Resetting Fore- and Background Color in the Composite image has no effect on the colors when you »enter« the Layer Mask/Alpha Channel.  

 

But please explain your procedure and post meaningful screenshots including teh pertinent Panels. 

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NoirDelireAuthor
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September 21, 2020

Well, I didn't make myself clear enought. My bad.

 

My procedure is simple. Let's say I stroke a path on a layer. For this, I use a hard black brush, size 10. Then I want to soften the result a litle here and there. Thus I get a lighter brush in my presets, I click on the mask of the layer, and I soften the zone I want. I do this again and again.

 

Problem, sometimes my brush color switch from black to white when I click on the mask. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Usualy, no. I don't know why...

 

Of course, I should be more carefull... but it end up I missed the switch. This happens often, and I want to solve it definitly. The perfect solution would be something that block this magical and unwanted color switch when I click on a mask.

 

Here is a screenshot of my controls...

 

The brush is black. But if I click on the mask, sometimes it switch to white. I think this is have something to do with the default color switching from black/white to white/black when I click on a mask.

 

Here is a screenshot of the color tool control when I clicked on a mask.

 

In this specific case, I have been lucky, black stay black. But sometimes, it reverse the colors. Like it have reversed the default tool icon. Unfortunatly, I do not realy know why and when it happens...


Thank you for your help

 

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NoirDelireAuthor
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September 22, 2020

That seems as expected – the Foreground Color and Background Color for composite (Layer) and alpha (Layer Mask) are not the same. 

The important thing is if they stay the same in the two »spaces« regardless of switching. 


Well... I understand that. I would prefer to keep my color order despite I'm painting a layer or a layer mask, but if it was systematicaly inverted I could do with it.

 

However, most of the time, the colors are not inverted. I would say, it switch my colors when I change from layer to layer mask, or reverse, only one on twenty. Thus, this feature appear unpredictible to me.

 

Like it is, the only way I can avoid frustrating and useless work, is to check that color order each time before painting. I have to say, that this is the kind of stuff that bug me, and I would apreciate a trick to stop that unpredictible unwanted switching.

 

Thanks for your time.

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