"Get to grips with Layers"????

[Dagwood]

I have PSE6 and don't use it as much as I should but for some reason had understood that it did not support LayerClipping Masks. I was interested to see the CD for February's DCMag had an exercise where a bracketed exposure of a tree was given the layers treatment and used a clipping mask but was aimed at both P'Shop CS and PSE6 and above. I tried it but failed to see how in PSE6 I can follow Layer>Create Clipping Mask. Wot can i be doin' wrong I ask myself??!!
If this is a mistake and you cannot use PSE6 for this (and I would appreciate anyone pointing me in the right direction) then could I go so far with the technique and then erase say the overexposed sky in one layer and erase the underexposed foreground in the other? Or is this HRD and I need to buy software?
Ta as always!
Dagwood

[Dagwood]

Originally Posted by Dagwood

I have PSE6 and don't use it as much as I should but for some reason had understood that it did not support LayerClipping Masks. I was interested to see the CD for February's DCMag had an exercise where a bracketed exposure of a tree was given the layers treatment and used a clipping mask but was aimed at both P'Shop CS and PSE6 and above. I tried it but failed to see how in PSE6 I can follow Layer>Create Clipping Mask. Wot can i be doin' wrong I ask myself??!!
If this is a mistake and you cannot use PSE6 for this (and I would appreciate anyone pointing me in the right direction) then could I go so far with the technique and then erase say the overexposed sky in one layer and erase the underexposed foreground in the other? Or is this HRD and I need to buy software?
Ta as always!
Dagwood

I hate bumping a post but was surprised not to see any reply whatsoever. My question is either:
1 Dumb!
2 Badly put.
3 Beyond the knowledge level of the folks out there.

1 and 2 I can believe , 3 ? Nah!
Can anyone give an opinion plse?
Ta
Dagwood

[ap4a]

I read your post originally, and I don't think that it's either dumb or badly put. Unfortunately I couldn't answer the question as I've never looked at anything on any of the CD and don't use PSE. Hopefully now that you've bumped it someone who does will be able to help. Or possibly try an email to the tutorial author if there is one, or to photoradar@futurenet.com to check if it was an error in their instructions.

[Oly Paul]

Yes PSE6 does support being able to make a clipping mask, just that its called "group with previous" in Elements.

As you can see here.


Of course you may want to download and install the layer mask facility in Elements so it is just the same as CS. you can get it here.

http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/pse...ermasktool.htm

And it works like so, how that for enought help.

[Dagwood]

Now that's what I call aresult . Thanks ,both of you!
Dagwood