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Subject: using layers

sissy-boogie opened this issue on Aug 09, 2002 · 7 posts
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sissy-boogie ( ) posted Fri, 09 August 2002 at 9:39 AM · edited Tue, 04 February 2025 at 10:52 PM

When duplicating layers how do you turn the background layer black and white and keep the first layer in color? Also, how do you unlock the layers?

lundqvist ( ) posted Fri, 09 August 2002 at 10:03 AM
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One possibility might be to select one of the duplicate layers and use Image->Adjust->Desaturate ? But I'm not sure what you want to do (there are many ways of reducing a layer's content to greyscale. Plain black and white, for example, can be achieved with Image->Adjust->Threshold)

retrocity ( ) posted Fri, 09 August 2002 at 10:21 AM

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Sis, The quickest way to change the background to black and white is to duplicate the background layer (click on the layer name and drag it down to the "create new layer" icon at the bottom of the palette - it will be named "background copy"). Next (with the background layer active) select Image --> Adjustments --> Desaturate (Shft+Ctrl+U)

As for locking and unlocking layers, look at the top icons in the layers palette. You can Lock/Unlock position, image pixels and transparent pixels.

:)
retrocity

Marque ( ) posted Fri, 09 August 2002 at 1:28 PM

Go to www.techtv.com and hit the screensavers area, guy just did a great thing on layers yesterday and it should be in the shownotes. 8^) Marque

Slynky ( ) posted Sat, 10 August 2002 at 6:18 PM

or hue/saturation, and turn the saturation dial ALL THE WAY to the left... mmm, the power!

Slynky ( ) posted Sat, 10 August 2002 at 6:32 PM

i've also concluded that retro has too much time on his hands... he took a screen shot, and then added shadowing to it to emphasize the uselessness of certain features in this excersize... poke poke

retrocity ( ) posted Mon, 12 August 2002 at 8:20 AM

:) retrocity

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