[Joost]

I can asure you that it doesn’t work if the eyeball is not switched on (for the mask, in the channels palette). I have tried it again and again after your last post. I have made sure the mask was selected (by clicking on it). But if the eyeball was not visible, the greyscale image would paste into a raster image in a new layer. If the eyeball was visible then the image would paste into the mask. I am talking about the eyeball in the channels palette. There is a seperate channel here, called ‘layer 1 mask’ (by default). This channel has it’s own eyeball switch. It is switched off by default after the mask is created.

I will look out for your book (CS2?). I think I will be visiting this forum on a regular basis.

Joost

[Joost]

Richard, thank you. I managed to get it right this time. The reason it didn’t work at first, is that the visibility of the mask was switched off (by default?). I saw this when I selected the ‘channels’ tab in the layers palette. The little visiblity-eye was not there. After I had turned it on everything worked as you described.

I think I need a good book because Photoshop doesn’t seem to reveal itself just by trial and error, as some programs do. At this point I experience that as a drawback in Photoshop. It has a load of functions but most of them are not as easily accessible as for example in PSP.

Oh well, I don’t want to be an old nag, rambling on about why one software is better than the other. You’ve helped me a lot. Thanks !!

Joost

[Joost]

Thank you Richard. I feel stupid but I can’t get this to work. I know how to create a new layer mask with the layer mask button, but I don’t know how to paste the greyscale image (from the clipboard) to the layer. If I use Ctrl+V, a new layer is created and the clipboard is pasted there, but PS doesn’t paste it into the mask area.I can’t find the option when I right-click on the layer. I see the white rectangle of the masked layer, but I can’t get any dat into it.

This is driving me nuts. In Paint Shop Pro I could do this with one mouse click, and now I’ve searching for days and haven’t found it yet. Any help is much apreciated. 🙂

Joost

[Joost]

Yes, but my problem is: how exactly do I do the parent-child thing in Photoshop.

Let’s say I have two images (textures) that I want to mix. And I want to mix them using a third image (usually a greyscale image). A white pixel means: image A is visible, a black pixel means: image B is visible, a grey pixel mixes images A and B according to it’s darkness.

It’s probably a silly question, but I just can’t figure out how to do it in Photoshop, while in Vegas I would do it with parent-child technique.