Mike Gondek
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Yes, copy to the clipboard and use paste in front or back
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I am struggling with your post to understand if you actually have a vector mask(with bezier handles and vector points), or if it may be a bitmapped mask(black and white pixels and possibly some gray.
If you have a vector mask, copy this, then go to the other layer mask, and paste it.
If you have a bitmapped mask, command click to make a selection of marching ants,then go to the layer you want to add the building, and fill the marching ants with white.
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Do you have the same printer chosen, that button can change if you have a different printer selected.
Also reinstall your print drivers. Go to the manufactuors website and download the latest install for your model of printer.
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Try
- remove the overly blend mode
- apply layer style >> overlay >> set you fill color, set the blend mode to overly
- Layer >> Layer Style >> create layer
You could have created this manually, but wanted to show you how photoshop thinks, and easier to explain this way.
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Photoshop in my opinion. Illustrator is great for designing new labels also, but to simulate the older printing presses of that era you want softer bitmapped type, and can add in some noise.
So you can start in illustrator, but smudge it up in phothshop, and you can use (filter >> texture >> texturizer>> sandstone texture >> elief 1 or 2) on your background color to make it look like the paper you are printing on has more texture. You can also put a small bevel on your type to make it look embossed from what an Intaglio press would do.
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Using a digitizing tablet, and setting the flow down to 1% when needed (eg: slowly fixing the edge of hairs)will give you a better mask than any of the knockout programs out there now or that ever existed. This is the way I did mine on the Hell Chromacon over 2 decades ago, and still today on a mac or pc.
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In the actions flyout, choose insert menu item, type join, then click find.
The actions palette is not very smart, and does not record that pull down menu, but the insert menu item solves these issues when actions does not record a menu command.
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Hold down the rectangle tool, and choose the flare tool at the bottom.
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Try gif for sharper type, though if this has photograph gif might get too large by giving it 256 colors. Can you post a sample.
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Use Object >> expand appearance,
then you can individually select shapes and stroke them, and bring them to front if needed, and delete a side by selecting it withe the hollow (direct) selection tool.