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06/17/2010 11:10:31 PM · #1 |
Is it legal to use a layer with a gradient tool (or even with a solid color) to enhance or modify a picture?
Something like using a blue layer with the gradient tool over a picture of a blue sky to enhance its color (and masking where the picture do not show the sky)?
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06/18/2010 12:02:28 AM · #2 |
I'll give you a confident "yes" for layering with the gradient tool, particularly at less than 100% opacity or in some non-Normal blending mode.
I'll give you a fairly confident "no" for replacing the sky with a gradient. I think you'd be running a big risk of the rule against adding (or removing) major elements. |
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06/18/2010 12:44:19 AM · #3 |
in some non-Normal blending mode - not legal in basic - in basic everything must be in normal blending mode
masking is not allowed in basic since any tool must be applied to the entire image.
Message edited by author 2010-06-18 00:48:44. |
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06/18/2010 07:56:00 AM · #4 |
| The most important thing to remember is that in Basic, no data layers are allowed, only adjustment layers. Your layer with gradient has a color fill, so it is a data layer. Not allowed. In Advanced, different story, all you need to worry about there is whether you are adding or removing something of substance from the composition. |
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06/18/2010 09:54:37 AM · #5 |
| kirbic has this one exactly right.. |
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