helenapalma Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 (edited) I have a Mac desktop running latest and Photoshop cc 2015. It is over 2 years old, and has 16GB of RAM. Its SSD hard drive has 75GB free out of 250GB. The last time I shut down was just before posting this thread. I rarely run a cleanup program. So it's been a while since I've edited and I'd say I am very proficient but I had a baby so who knows anymore....but I still know how to use my layers and brushes!!! I had created a layer with a mask and was just masking out something on the right side because content aware wasn't great and I accidentally went too far over my son's hair..so I inverted my brush to black and instead of going back to the top layer there is now a "GHOST" image...I can just not worry about it and start over and not go that far over but why is it doing this?? I reset my brush tool btw. (and I'm about 4 months overdue calibrating and my son totally messed with my brightness-please forgive this) Edited February 7, 2016 by helenapalma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicole Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Your brush opacity is set at 30%, it needs to be at 100%. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helenapalma Posted February 7, 2016 Author Share Posted February 7, 2016 oh i meant to write that I had changed that to 100%! even hardness and it didnt help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 What is the purpose of the layer you're masking there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helenapalma Posted February 8, 2016 Author Share Posted February 8, 2016 Bad content aware fill..instead of cloning I usually just create another layer, move the photo over, add a mask and mask away and then flatten it. (don't kill me if that's bad, it's just how I've always done it). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 No that's fine, perfectly legitimate. Just checking. If you Alt-click on the mask thumbnail to show it in black and white, is it pure black in that problem area? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helenapalma Posted February 8, 2016 Author Share Posted February 8, 2016 Damien, I just figured it out...the black brush wasn't truly "black". That's strange...I reset my brush but hadn't checked that. And I see you just replied!!! Thank you..I'm sorry to have bothered! I thought I was losing my mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 For the record, this is mentioned in the FAQs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helenapalma Posted February 8, 2016 Author Share Posted February 8, 2016 oh!! I thought I covered my bases! Will look closer next time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 But gee, don't worry about "bothering"! It's what I'm here for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helenapalma Posted February 8, 2016 Author Share Posted February 8, 2016 I appreciate it, Damien! Just a rookie mistake and I don't like making those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Hell, I make it all the time, and I'm way past rookie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helenapalma Posted February 8, 2016 Author Share Posted February 8, 2016 ok, I feel better! And thank you again! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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