Sky Overlay

[kainicole59638990]

I am trying to do a sky overlay, I placed my overlay on the image, I chose not to lower the opacity, and I hid the layer mask. Then I went to "paint" on the skies and as far as I can tell I have everything correct, but when I do the sky looks like it is barely there, it's not vibrant like it should be, it almost looks just gray....am I missing a step?!

Please help, I am trying to finish this project for a friend in the next 2 days!

Thank you in advance!

[John Waller]

Can you post a screenshot including the full Layer panel?

[kainicole59638990]

this is with the sky overlay that i "painted" on...

this is with the layer not hidden

the sky in the original picture is pretty much just blue..this is not the image i am using it on, i am just trying to figure out how to do it correctly.

Thanks

[D Fosse · Accepted solution]

You're painting into the mask with a very dark gray, almost black. So not very much happens.

You need to paint with white. Set the brush to low opacity if you want to build up gradually.

[kainicole59638990]

Thank you!

How do I change it to white??? sorry...for all the questions, but I appreciate your help!

[D Fosse]

Normally you use the color picker to set foreground and background color. You paint with the foreground color.

In this case the simplest is to just hit D for Default colors, which is black foreground and white background. You need the inverse, so hit X to swap foreground/background.