Bug Sampson wrote:
I had to put this aside for the moment. The clarification for step 30 didn't really clarify things for me. I know it's been a while but any enlightenment, Draconian?
See if this helps....
30. In the Layers dialog, right click on the top text layer and select
New Layer. When the dialog comes up, tick the button
that says Foreground color Set the layer Opacity
to about 40%. Rename this layer to “Dark Mask”. Right click
the text layer below to activate it (no need to tick the eye and
make it visible) and select Alpha to Selection. Reselect the
Dark Mask layer to make it active again then just hit Delete to
cut out the text from the mask layer. This will darken the
background without darkening the text further.Not sure which part of this step was unclear but I tried to reword it to make sure the "Dark Mask" layer was the one that has the text area "cut out".
Edit: I actually did a sort of "remake" of this in my Metal Wurx series. The segment is called Pitted Metal but I did a search and it was not listed in either my posts or in the topics list for May 14th. Luckily someone responded to it recently so Here's the link.
viewtopic.php?f=23&t=4269Little different approach, but similar results. You may want to try that one instead. It's not nearly as long winded as my first tutorial attempt. Thanks for trying the tut.