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no mask in local adjustments

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  • Ian Wilson
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    If you have created a mask, and you have the layer with the mask selected, pressing M on the keyboard should toggle the mask visibility on and off. Have you tried that?

    Ian
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  • ashley stevenson
    Hi Ian thanks for that but still no joy. Cannot see any mask at any time.
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  • HansB
    What are your settings in 'Preferences...' - 'Appearance' - 'Local Adjustments' - 'Mask Color'?


    Regards,
    Hans
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  • Frank Depping
    It's a mistake by PhaseOne in the logic of masking:

    - You first have to create a mask! If you select a new layer, you have to create a mask by drawing (brushing) it or using the gradient tool.
    - Just creating a new layer and brushing a local adjustment shows NOTHING
    - Workaround for me: Create a new layer and invert the mask directly by choosing the menu item in the three dots in the right upper corner of the "layers selection".
    - press "M" and you will see the complete picture in red, that's your mask
    - Change the exposure or white balance. It's an effect on your complete picture
    - Now choose a gradient mask and voilà - the mask can be modified.

    Phase One did it the wrong way around, but it works with my way.

    Regards, Frank
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  • HansB
    Frank,


    When I apply masks to local adjustment layers, I do the following:

    + create a layer
    + paint a mask for the area I want to change, or a gradient
    + apply the adjustments

    Additionally, I
    + toggle mask visibility on/off with 'm' or from tool menu, if necessary, at any step.

    If I want to mask the whole image (not really a 'local adjustment' by the way), I create a new adjustment layer and invert the (not yet existing) mask. That's just faster than painting with a huge brush.

    Pretty straight forward. No extra steps needed.

    Yes, PS is different.
    In PS you create a global adjustment layer and you partially erase it.
    In CO you create a local adjustment layer and you paint it in.
    Not wrong, just different. And it matches the tool name: Local Adjustments.

    NN297105UL's problem is:
    [quote="NN297105UL" wrote:
    ... mask is created and adjustments work in masked area but mask display [red ] is not showing ...


    Regards,
    Hans
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  • SFA
    I was about to ask whether the OP had looked at the global Preference setting for the Local Adjustment Opacity mask but....


    Now my Local mask has disappeared for adjustments - but still appears for clones and heals.

    It was OK yesterday. The only significant intervention I can think of would have been playing with the Preference setting.

    Very strange. I cannot think of anything else that would obviously cause a problem form the actions recently taken. Resetting the preferences does not seem to be making any difference.

    Still investigating.


    Grant

    ETA.

    Well, that goes to show how easy it is to confuse oneself.

    That the heal and clone masks worked threw me a little - but I had forgotten that I had "Show Mask" set to "Never" - something I never do (well, hardly ever .....)

    Further tests show that the preferences work just fine and if one sets the default mask opacity to a low figure (0 for example) then no mask will appear no matter what opacity one sets on the brush. In that case the global opacity setting also applies to the clone and heal layer types.
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  • ashley stevenson
    Hi All thanks Hansb it was the settings in preferences. All fine now
    thanks to everyone for help
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  • HansB
    Glad to hear that your masks are up and running again. 😄
    Working with masks and not seeing them is more than nasty.


    Regards,
    Hans
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