Question about the gradient tool and the art history brush
bmo...@mailbox.bellatlantic.net
not totally green, just that I never really had a reason to use the
history brushes, or the art history brush. Could someone direct me to a
tutorial for using them or an article that explains what there about,
that goes a little more in depth than the default help,and manuals talk
about. It's killing me to find out what I can do with them and what
there for. But the real question is:
Also I use photoshop at school and at home. I seem to remember that
everytime I used one of my favorite tricks/tips (When haveing a black
background and placing a picture in another layer over it, I'd be able
to use the gradient tool to go from forground to background, and when I
did that if I didn't like the way it looked at 1st I'd be able to just
click and drag in a slightly different location and a slightly different
angle to see what the next one would look like) then after experimenting
I'd leave it with whatever one I liked the best. The problem that I'm
having now, is that my gradient tool isn't reseting after the 1st try.
On the 2nd try it just ads more black(background) to the picture. and
then the 3rd try it ads even more until the whole picture is black. what
is it that I did or didn't do somewhere in the presets or the options
panel that is making it accumlative instead of changing with every new
try.
I would usually use this trick using the gradient tool with a mask,
when it would do what I said above. I've just been trying it again, as
I'm writting this and still it won't let me do another try without going
back in the history pallet and sliding back to a latter version to start
over. I didn';t used to have to do this. I looked in the preferences and
there doesn't seem to be anything about this in there. Please Help.
bri...@hotmail.com
Bruce Morano
Tacit
>not totally green, just that I never really had a reason to use the
>history brushes, or the art history brush. Could someone direct me to a
>tutorial for using them or an article that explains what there about,
>that goes a little more in depth than the default help,and manuals talk
>about.
The History brush is really quite straightforward. It is an "undo" brush.
Let us say you have a pacture of a person standing against a blue background.
Let us say that you make a change to the picture--you run a filter, for
example, or use the Curves command.
If you hit Undo, you undo the change everywhere.
If you use the History brush, you "paint" the undo. You can aint over the
person and undo the change just over the person, leaving the background still
changed.
>The problem that I'm
>having now, is that my gradient tool isn't reseting after the 1st try.
You do not have it set to Normal mode. You probably have it set to Darken or
Multiply. Click on the tool. Look at the Potions palette (or Options bar in
Photoshop 6). Make sure its Mode is set to Normal.
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