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I've got perhaps a bit of an odd one. I've got a picture where I've got two figures in the foreground, one of which is a copy of the other flipped horizontally. I've then got 2 gradient adjustment layers changing the colour of the background and the clothes, using a layer mask to ensure that no skin or hair changes colour. Now what I'm trying to do is to add a hue layer which will change the colour of the gradients. My ultimate aim is to save off a large number of layers, each with subtly different colours which will, eventually, cycle through the whole lot.
If I put a hue layer above one of the gradients and set up a clipping mask so that it only affects one of the gradients, that works fine. So I could, in theory have two separate hue layers and adjust each, but it seems like that's a bit of a long-winded way of doing it and there should be an easier way.
If, however, I merge the gradient layers then the gradients disappear altogether. The layers are still there, but they don't have any effect whatsoever, and the information on the layer changes from the gradient symbol and the mask to the grey and which checks of the alpha channel. On the other hand, if I group them together they remain unchanged, but if I then create a hue layer above them with a clipping mask so that that hue layer should only affect that group, then they, again, cease to have any effect whatsoever. And that's true regardless of whether or not he hue layer is actually doing anything - i.e. whether the "Hue" fader is at 180 or at 0.
Is there something I'm doing wrong?
If I put a hue layer above one of the gradients and set up a clipping mask so that it only affects one of the gradients, that works fine. So I could, in theory have two separate hue layers and adjust each, but it seems like that's a bit of a long-winded way of doing it and there should be an easier way.
If, however, I merge the gradient layers then the gradients disappear altogether. The layers are still there, but they don't have any effect whatsoever, and the information on the layer changes from the gradient symbol and the mask to the grey and which checks of the alpha channel. On the other hand, if I group them together they remain unchanged, but if I then create a hue layer above them with a clipping mask so that that hue layer should only affect that group, then they, again, cease to have any effect whatsoever. And that's true regardless of whether or not he hue layer is actually doing anything - i.e. whether the "Hue" fader is at 180 or at 0.
Is there something I'm doing wrong?
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