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Geek Culture / Remove gradient in photoshop without changing the colorburn

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Mr Bigglesworth
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Posted: 11th Apr 2009 02:28
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Hey, I have Photoshop CS2, and I made some cool blood splats for my game, and I used a gradient with the colorburn blend mode, and I need to make the background transparent, but when I remove the gradient the colorburn goes away (which I knew would happen) what can I do to keep the colorburn but remove the gradient, attached is a pic of my work, help would be appreciated.

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gbark
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Posted: 11th Apr 2009 02:40 Edited at: 11th Apr 2009 02:41
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I'm not familiar with CS2 (I'm a Corel PaintshopPro man myself...), but maybe one alternative would be not to remove the background, simply mask it out.

Create a new layer, merge your "Layer 1" and "Layer 2" onto it, make it a grayscale, then play with the contrast/opacity/color until you get it so that the shape of the bloodsplat is white, fading to lightgray, while the background is black. Then set that layer as a mask to your entire image so that the bloodsplat remains visible but rest of the gradient background is transparent-ed out (solid black on your new mask layer).

That maybe a bass-ackwards way if there's something more simple that CS2 can do, but it's how I would try it first.
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Mr Bigglesworth
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Thanks, I'll try it and see.

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Posted: 12th Apr 2009 00:44 Edited at: 12th Apr 2009 00:45
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Merge the two layers as gbark suggested,then CTRL+Click on the picture of the merged layer in the layer manager.
The go to select>Inverse... highlight the background layer and press delete.

Make sure you double click on the background layer in order to remove the Layer lock.

There are a couple of other ways you could do it, but this is the simplest.

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Mr Bigglesworth
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Thanks you guys, could't have done it without ya!

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Lukas W
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I realize this is off topic, however seeing as the problem is solved:

Biggadd, Is that the special edition of th ewacom intous3? Or how come yours is black?
I remember when I bought mine that I had the selection between a special edition and the normal one. The special edition was more expensive, but if it's black I regret not buying that one now
It would match all of my other black computer equipment.

Also, I love the sig! Personally I've never used Adobe Illustrator. Is it good for drawing in, or is it like a designer's tool or something?

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Posted: 12th Apr 2009 23:37 Edited at: 12th Apr 2009 23:41
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Quote: "Biggadd, Is that the special edition of th ewacom intous3? Or how come yours is black?
I remember when I bought mine that I had the selection between a special edition and the normal one. The special edition was more expensive, but if it's black I regret not buying that one now
It would match all of my other black computer equipment."


Its the special Edition, and yes I'm afraid it is black! I think the special edition comes with the black finish and a airbrush pen (as well as the standard pen and mouse in a black finish also).


Quote: "Also, I love the sig! Personally I've never used Adobe Illustrator. Is it good for drawing in, or is it like a designer's tool or something?"


Thanks very much. Illustrator is very good for precise vector work. I recommend trying it out if you have it lying around somewhere, or perhaps tryout the demo. You can do quite a lot with vectors.

Here is a 3D study I had a go at with illustrator:


Hope that helps.

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