[Art Doerge]

Hi Emily,

My guess is that your text is not directly under the ‘content’ of the other layer. Either that or your text is exactly the same color as the ‘content’ of the other layer.

Remember that with a clipping mask, the non-transparent content of the base layer (your text in this case) reveals the content of the layer above it. So, if there is nothing directly above the text, the top layer will ‘seem’ to disappear. That would also happen if your text was the same color as what’s directly above it. And it doesn’t have to be text by the way 🙂

Try it again, but this time make sure your text is directly below some content on that upper layer and that your text is not the same color as what’s directly above it.

Hope this helps,

Art

[Art Doerge]

Hi Nate,

Check out Adobe’s “Kuler” at:

https://kuler.adobe.com/#themes/rating?time=30

Be sure to click on the “Create” button on the left side.

Art

[Art Doerge]

You’re welcome Brian!

[Art Doerge]

Hi Brian,

I’m on a Mac, but I think on a PC you would hold the Ctrl key down and click on the layer ‘Thumbnail’ (not the layer itself).

Art

[Art Doerge]

You’re welcome Than, glad I could help 🙂

[Art Doerge]

Than,

I forgot to mention that you could also change the resolution (to 300 for our example) first, by starting with the “Resample Image” box not checked. Then, you would not need to close and reopen the window. After changing the resolution to 300, you would then check that Resample Image box and change your pixel dimensions to 2400×3000. Now, you would click the OK button and the window would close. Either way works fine. The thing to remember is that the resolution setting is used for printing purposes and actually wouldn’t have to be changed at all, until it’s time to print. But when it is changed, the Resample Image box needs to be un-checked 🙂

[Art Doerge]

Okay Than,

No problem, that’s normal and correct; just click the “OK” button and the window will close. Now, re-open the Image Size window and this time remove the check mark from the “Resample Image” box. Notice that your width and height settings (2400×3000) remain. Now, change the resolution setting (in the Doc Size area) to 300 and you’ll see that when you print, it will be an 8×10 print. Again, click the OK box and you’re done.

Art

[Art Doerge]

Hi Than,

I noticed you’re dealing with inches instead of pixels. Keep in mind that your computer monitor uses pixels, not inches. Images can vary greatly (in pixel size) and still show 8×10 “inches” in Photoshop’s Image Size dialog. It just depends on that resolution setting and that, by the way, is only used to control your final print size. Regarding the images mentioned in your post, chances are they’re of different resolutions, and that is causing confusion 🙂

What you need to do is size your images paying attention to the pixel size. For example, if you want to print a 17 by 22 inch sheet, at say 300 ppi, you’ll need a Photoshop document that is 5100 by 6600 pixels. Your 8 by 10 inch images would be 2400 by 3000 pixels.

Hope this is helpful.

[Art Doerge]

Hi Aaron,

I’m not very familiar with correcting out-of-gamut problems but there’s a good web page that I think would help you quite a bit (link below). Be sure to read their out-of-gamut color page as well. Hope it’s helpful.

Here’s the link.

Art

[Art Doerge]

Hi Vince,

Try this: Go to Edit > Preferences > Performance (for Windows) or Photoshop > Preferences > Performance (for the Mac) and uncheck “Enable Open GL Drawing”. If that solves the problem you may want to update your display driver to one compatible with CS4.

Hope this helps.