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Doomsday · 07-28-2007

First things first, thanks very much for all the helpful replies - especially Tamlin for going through all the trouble to work up those models for me! MUCH appreciated!

I did get it to work, though I had to go through an extra step - perhaps you can tell the what's and why's that this worked:

I replicated what you did on the first project - creating a hue/saturation layer, reducing its saturation to -100, click the mask, apply the black-white linear gradient. Still nothing. So I decide to grab the brush tool and paint some black on there just to see if the layer is working, which it is - everywhere I brush, color comes through. On a lark, I click the paint bucket tool and apply black to the whole thing, and (as you'd expect) it comes through all color. Here's the interesting part: I then applied the black-white gradient tool, and then it does exactly what I'd been trying for this whole time: color on one side fading to black-and-white on the other.

So why would I have to apply the black to the whole thing and only then get the results I was looking for?

Whatever the reasons, again I have to say thanks very much to Tamlin for all the great assistance!

07-28-2007	#9 (permalink)
Doomsday Registered User Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 5	First things first, thanks very much for all the helpful replies - especially Tamlin for going through all the trouble to work up those models for me! MUCH appreciated! I did get it to work, though I had to go through an extra step - perhaps you can tell the what's and why's that this worked: I replicated what you did on the first project - creating a hue/saturation layer, reducing its saturation to -100, click the mask, apply the black-white linear gradient. Still nothing. So I decide to grab the brush tool and paint some black on there just to see if the layer is working, which it is - everywhere I brush, color comes through. On a lark, I click the paint bucket tool and apply black to the whole thing, and (as you'd expect) it comes through all color. Here's the interesting part: I then applied the black-white gradient tool, and then it does exactly what I'd been trying for this whole time: color on one side fading to black-and-white on the other. So why would I have to apply the black to the whole thing and only then get the results I was looking for? Whatever the reasons, again I have to say thanks very much to Tamlin for all the great assistance!