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  • Luma matte isn’t working

    Posted by Chris Cummings on July 19, 2009 at 7:18 am

    Hi All,

    I’m being asked to tone down a shiny highlight on someone’s skin. I did this before using AK’s “Blemish Removal” tutorial (using Threshold to isolate the white highlights, then using an adjustment layer below as a luma matte to allow me to help blend/tone down the highlights with various effects). For some reason, the luma matte isn’t working. I can isolate the highlights on the face nicely using Threshold, but when I apply the adj. layer as a luma matte below, the effect is gone (isolating the layer above shows just a full white frame instead of the previously black with white isolated highlights).

    Any thoughts, or is there a better way to do this?

    Thanks,
    ~Chris

    Chris Cummings replied 16 years, 9 months ago 29,384 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Chris Cummings

    July 19, 2009 at 7:33 am

    Sigh. Figured it out – chalk it up to being tired…I was working on an adjustment layer in a stack of many as opposed to the base layer with the video 😉

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