Photoshop help

Shicky · 11 Apr 2011 at 19:38

Need some help as im a bit clueless what to do really. Basically I have some content boxes for a website and now I wish to make a bigger version in the same style. My idea was to get the two existing ones and put one on top of the other, thereby extending it so I have a nice new large content box. However fate has conspired against me and as I have effects on the title box and content box it doesnt work.

the effects are inner glow, color overlay and stroke - im guessing the glow is the issue as its the borders that are the problem. I tried brushing, erasing, selecting an area and deleting. Frankly I have no clue how im meant to delete the left side of these boxes.

Help pretty please!

simisker · 11 Apr 2011 at 20:06

I'm guessing by your attempts that these are raster/bitmap layers with layer effects added. So if you try erasing some of the raster layer, the layer effects get re-applied to the newly-erased raster layer?

If so:

Click the layer you want to adapt in the layer palette
Alt-L-D-Enter to duplicate that layer
Ctrl+Click the layer and it's duplicate so that they're both highlighted in the layer palette
Ctrl+E to merge those two layers [including the layer effects].
You should now have a single layer looking like it has those layer effects, only not using layer effects.
Go wild.

It's quick and dirty, but it'll do. If you're going to be working with these boxes for a while, you might be better off recreating them using paths.

Shicky · 12 Apr 2011 at 22:48

nuts yeah it looks horribly dirty, the effects double on the border and ruins it. Any ideas?

simisker · 12 Apr 2011 at 23:05

Screenshot time!

Shicky · 12 Apr 2011 at 23:10

ooo nearly had it by hiding the styles, have the large content box perfectly, however its hidden the header lines i was using under the effect i applied or something. Is it possible to essentially send them to the back?

Shicky · 12 Apr 2011 at 23:21

nevermind think i have it...

FabienO · 13 Apr 2011 at 00:09

/hijack

CBA to post a thread but any photoshop people thing they can remove this glare from my face?

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Tripnologist · 13 Apr 2011 at 10:31

edit: Will do a better one later. Now that I've woken up, the one I did looks bad.

FabienO · 14 Apr 2011 at 10:59

Ah cheers

Shicky · 14 Apr 2011 at 19:54

I just noticed this didnt actually work correctly. Basically I turned off all the effects, merged the two layers, then pasted the style back on it. I thought it worked perfectly but I never noticed for some reason part of the style isnt applied to the bottom. It applied to the top of the box fine, sides slowly seem to darken but can get away with it, the bottom, the stroke effect just does not exist, WHY!?

Tried flipping and just using the top cut as the bottom but the stroke effect is brighter along the top than at the bottom

Any ideas?

Shicky · 14 Apr 2011 at 20:30

nevermind fixing it now but my word i hate photoshop with a passion..

gord · 14 Apr 2011 at 20:31

That doesn't sound like stroke. That sounds like some sort of bevel.

If you want to test the stroke up its thickness and change it to a contrasting colour. It may be blending with the BG or you've got some layer interference?

Shicky · 14 Apr 2011 at 21:15

Fixed it now, i really have no idea what was happening, it was just not pasting the bottom bit of the layer in terms of the stroke effect. copy and pasted the same effect from a different layer and it worked, honestly do not understand what went on there!