Planet Eclipse Tutorial

Thanks for the reply, but I did merge the layers then unlocked the
background. Still has me confused why it does not work.

"Johan W. Elzenga" <nomail.DeleteThis@please.invalid> wrote in message
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> Jerry <jhuffman.DeleteThis@triad.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> I have the tutorial for planeteclipse from the Adobe Photoshop Exchange
>> and
>> it also can be found on the web at:
>> http://www.oman3d.com/tutorials/photoshop/video/solar_eclipse.php
>>
>> It seems to be a great tutorial and teaches a novice such as myself many
>> techniques for PS. The one thing <probably me> is that it works fine
>> until
>> very close to the end, then something goes wrong. Just before adding a
>> gradient layer, the tutorial says to add a Layer Mask and it show no
>> visible
>> change to the way the image looks in the tutorial, however when I do
>> that,
>> most of the image goes transparent leaving only the orb and the glow
>> around
>> it. The background should stay black.
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone knows why this is happening.
>
> You probably missed a part where the layers were merged. It's a rather
> clumsy tutorial anyway. This guy makes life far more complicated than it
> needs to be. For example, he uses the paint bucket as aa fill tool, even
> though there is a fill menu and a fill shortcut to do so. Although it
> works in this tutorial, the paint bucket is *not* a good tool for
> filling a layer. He also makes a white circle in a layer, and then uses
> Fill Opacity to make it black. You can simply make a black circle and
> leave it like that.
>
>
> --
> Johan W. Elzenga johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl
> Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.com
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> Thanks for the reply, but I did merge the layers then unlocked the
> background. Still has me confused why it does not work.
>
>


Maybe you had a selection active?
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Hello Jerry,

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:04:26 -0400, "Jerry" <jhuffman RemoveThis @triad.rr.com>
wrote:

>Using PS CS3
>
>I have the tutorial for planeteclipse from the Adobe Photoshop Exchange and
>it also can be found on the web at:
>http://www.oman3d.com/tutorials/photoshop/video/solar_eclipse.php
>
>It seems to be a great tutorial and teaches a novice such as myself many
>techniques for PS.


Yes it is. One bit of advice that I would offer is to avoid the
constant merging of layers. The effects shown in the tutorial can all
be achieved without all that merging. By skipping the layer merging
and using adjustment layers you will be free to go back and change
various aspects of the eclipse if you later decide you don't like it.



> The one thing <probably me> is that it works fine until
>very close to the end, then something goes wrong. Just before adding a
>gradient layer, the tutorial says to add a Layer Mask and it show no visible
>change to the way the image looks in the tutorial,

That is correct. When a layer mask is added, it defaults to white
which reveals all.


> however when I do that,
>most of the image goes transparent leaving only the orb and the glow around
>it. The background should stay black.

I didn't follow the tutorial through myself. I just watched what he
did and worked to achieve the same results by way of different
methods.

>I was wondering if anyone knows why this is happening.

Could be an active selection. I have been side tracked more than once
by that problem myself. If you have a selection active and you then
create a layer mask on some layer, Photoshop will take that selection
into account when creating the layer mask.


>Also does anyone know if it is possible to get a printout of the tutorial
>rather than using the video tutorial. I followed the video tutorial and
>made my own hard copy, but I must have missed something or the tutorial is
>in error.


Fortunately it is not a very long tutorial. I find that making notes
as you have done is better in the long run because I can go back and
modify my notes to reflect where I have deviated from the tutorials
directions.





Best Regards, Jim
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