Mask tool - undo
Posted: July 20th, 2009, 4:44 pm
I need saving from myself - yet again!
This morning someone asked me to take a narrow boat from one photo and put it in front of a pub in another photo.
The narrow boat, dark in colour, was against a dark background and I was very pleased with myself when I remembered the Special Effect/Edge transforms. I used one of these in Lighten mode (Roberts, I think) to make the straight lines of the boat easier to see thus easier to use the Mask spline tool to pick the boat out from the background.
Where I shot myself in the foot was after hitting 'lower left Apply' and seeing that I'd missed little bits here and there. For some reason my instinctive action is to hit Undo expecting that all that will happen it that the red colouring will go away leaving the splined line visible for tweaking. Of course everything vanishes and I have to start again - after a short interval for cursing myself for making the same mistake AGAIN!
A 're-do' button would be nice...
Short of this, can anyone suggest how, short of a brain transplant, I can minimise the likelihood of repeating this time consuming error?
Mike.
This morning someone asked me to take a narrow boat from one photo and put it in front of a pub in another photo.
The narrow boat, dark in colour, was against a dark background and I was very pleased with myself when I remembered the Special Effect/Edge transforms. I used one of these in Lighten mode (Roberts, I think) to make the straight lines of the boat easier to see thus easier to use the Mask spline tool to pick the boat out from the background.
Where I shot myself in the foot was after hitting 'lower left Apply' and seeing that I'd missed little bits here and there. For some reason my instinctive action is to hit Undo expecting that all that will happen it that the red colouring will go away leaving the splined line visible for tweaking. Of course everything vanishes and I have to start again - after a short interval for cursing myself for making the same mistake AGAIN!
A 're-do' button would be nice...
Short of this, can anyone suggest how, short of a brain transplant, I can minimise the likelihood of repeating this time consuming error?
Mike.