January 27, 2009

I love to paint with Photoshop, but it has a quirk that is driving me crazy.
My process is to work with three layers. My line work is in the middle layer set to multiply mode. I have a normal layer under that to block color in with and a normal layer on top to add the finishing touches. Occasionally I like to throw a multiply layer on top of everything and add value and color with that. During the process of painting, I might do that half a gazillion times. I dont need a file with half a gazillion layers, so I need to be able to merge those top layers together. Unfortunately, when I do that, the multiply layer loses it’s effect and turns opaque.
There is no problem dropping a muliply layer onto a flattened image, but I need to keep my three layers loose to work through my picture.
Mark Behm was trying to troubleshoot this with me over the weekend, and this is the little picture I did in the process of trying to figure this Photoshop quirk out…
…by the way, I didn’t get it figured out, so if there are any Photoshop geniuses out there that have a suggestion on how I can drop a multiply layer onto a normal LAYER, (not a flattened image), I would love to hear it…
The Comments
Bernard
Wow! Working for Jones Bros. must be nice…over 2 weeks off for Christmas vacation? Nice Family. Your are blessed…and I can see that you have quite a few young legacy lifters there to carry on the family crazyness.
Dennis Jones
…yup, those people are nuts… I’m the only sane one in the bunch…