frustration with masking
I had to slightly enlarge a photo in PS and need to clone in some sky in the expanded part. I need to merge the original sky with the cloned sky but I can see the border between the two. I tried feathering the mask and tried refining the mask but neither did what I want.
So decided to play with opacity, flow, etc. settings on the mask itself. But it appears that you have to decide all those settings before drawing the mask, then draw the mask, and if it isn't right you have to delete the mask and try again. In my experience so far it isn't WYSWIG. Once the mask is drawn I can tweak the opacity, flow, etc, etc all I want but it doesn't change the mask. I don't want to have to do dozens of trials to see what works best. I want to see affect on the screen as I tweak the mask settings.
I'm using C1 v11 so maybe it's a (stupid) limitation in this old version or maybe I'm doing something wrong?
Can anyone tell me how to see the affects of my mask opacity, flow, etc. as I tweak my mask?
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Speaking from release 21 (v14.4) experience: You're probably looking at the mask drawing brush's settings. To change a mask after the fact you can check the layer menu > 'refine mask' or 'feather mask'.
To see the mask you're drawing as a red overlay, press M to toggle. To look at the mask alone in black/white, white being the selection, use alt+M. The latter is handy to spot holes in your selection and the amount of feathering.
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Problem is that it took some doing to get my mask drawn the way I wanted it. I don't really want to start all over with a new mask.
Someone here said that once you have painted onto a mask, you can't change the settings used on the brush when it was painted.
Maybe I could use two layers- one for the majority of the sky and another for the edge of the sky. I could just keep erasing and repainting the smaller mask until I get it right. Kind of a pain, though.
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