Transparencey question.... 1

[clerz]

Using CS2 on win xp.

I have an object on a page with description of it on the bottom.

Say I freehand draw a circle with the pencil tool, fill it with grey color and now go to transparency and choose multiply...the text then shows through my freehand drawing but the object also gets lighter (but I don't want that)...so I cut and paste the object on its own layer and put it above everything......but still the same result.

what am I doing to get this and how can I resolve it?

Thanks.

 

[eugenetyson]

I don't understand... is your freehand circle covering the text or image or both? Why are using multiply? Why can't you put your freehand drawing underneath your image/text/both?

I'm a little confused...

Did you make a gray swatch? Did you use a transparency on the black or use a tint of black? Can you post an image of what's happening to clarify?

I'll be glad to help as soon as I understand the problem

 

[eugenetyson]

Oh yeh, what do you want to happen?

When you choose to Multiply, the value of the colours underneath is multiplied by the colour values above it. The colour is always darker and multiplying black with black does nothing, even with shades of gray, I believe.

 

[clerz]

Well, I was probably getting too fancy 4 my own good.

I can just use sent back and send the mostest backest! and it does the same thing w/o affecting layers.

Thanks.

 

[eugenetyson]

Just don't forget that when you're using blend modes, like mulitply, you're either adding, substracting, multiplying or dividing colour values (or all 4 of these) from the base colour to the blend colour.