Solid Color Layer affects entire background rather than just the brush. Clipping Mask not working!

[Taylor Girard]

My solid color layer is not only affecting the brush stroke even though I have the clipping mask activated. It keeps bleeding into my background. What am I doing wrong? Made a 60 second vid to show my layers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lawYNt42dNg&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3poNSeflQn7dTeN37_fypiLvLHwY...

[davescm]

You are clipping the layer to the solid colour below, so it will clip to the entire layer (except where you brush in full black on the mask).

Rearrange your layers as below to put the brush strokes on a separate layer:

Dave

[Taylor Girard]

I see where I'm suppose to go with what you're saying, however, how do I remove that color fill? I can't get the bursh layer all by itself?

[davescm]

Just brush the strokes directly onto an empty layer (not onto the color fill layer mask).

If you need to extract existing strokes from that mask you will need to select the mask then go to the channels panel and make a selection of the brush stroke from that channel. Then you can fill it onto an empty layer.

Dave

[Taylor Girard]

So I went to channels and still can't find out how to get it on it's own layer. I made another video to show you the trouble I'm having which should more clearly communicate my process, or lack there of. Photoshop is not very intuitive for me at all.

https://youtu.be/zuw9pf3tHwQ

[davescm]

Hi

Add your new empty layer

Click on the mask for the fill layer and in channels panel right click and duplicate the mask channel

Select the duplicated channel and use Image > Adjustments > curves to Invert it and increase the contrast (move end points as shown)

Go to the new empty layer and select it in the layers panel.

In the channels panel select the Mask copy and click on load channel as selection

Click on the RGB channel then Shift+F5 to fill the selection with colour ( I used black)

Add your new color fill and clip it to the layer with the black brush strokes

Dave

[Taylor Girard]

Man. This just isn't clicking for some reason. It's just not getting that result and I'm not sure where I'm missing the steps.

https://youtu.be/llAsjK9j8Io

[davescm]

Before converting the duplicate channel to a selection make sure you use the curves as shown. What was previously white you want totally black and vice versa. So left point up from bottom to top and right point down from top to bottom. Then move the left point to the right to increase contrast until it reaches the histogram on the curve.

Then , and only then, turn it into a selection.

That way the black areas will not be selected and will not be filled on the new layer, leaving only the brush stroke.

Dave

[Taylor Girard]

Hmmm... I appreciate the time here, but found out simply inverting the brush layer and then applying a levels adjustment to play with that was a way I got the results I needed. I, apparently, did this much more complicated than it should have been done. Worked out in the end and thank you for your time!