Excellent!

Thank you so much for the Super Thanks.

Thanks Donald and thanks for sharing your image. Have a great weekend and Happy Editing.

Do you think you’d be interested in an underwater photo sometime?

@@donaldbernhardt That sounds great Donald.

My pleasure!

Thanks, you too!

For weeks I thought I heard; “blend DIFF…’

You're very welcome!

In this case I saved the image from Photoshop Beta back into Lightroom and then went into Photoshop 2023. I could have stayed in Photoshop Beta.

Thanks. As II said in the video, there are many ways of doing the same thing. I am sure paint contrast would have also worked.

@@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly Thank you

The way I show in the video is automatic. If that mask wasn't correct and needed some work, I would forgo the auto-save and just select the Sky or Foreground and then use S&M on the Combo or CX Panel and make any corrections needed.

@@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly hi Dave. Thanks for your help and swift reply. Keep up the great work.

I'm dodging on a 50% gray layer using Blend If to target Lights 2, while using the Foreground Selection to protect the sky. The dodging involves direct painting on the gray layer, without a separate mask.

It's the correct PDF but has the wrong filename. Just rename when you download and save.

The Link takes you to the correct PDF Notes for this image. So go ahead and click it you will get the correct notes. I don't know why it gave the file the wrong name but you will get the correct notes.

I went ahead and changed it to the correct name. Refresh the Video Page and re-download it.

Happiness is TK Friday! Your full edit tutorials are so helpful. You show both how and why to use multiple TK tools. And you show multiple ways to accomplish the same result. Thanks Dave!!!

Thank you Dave

Actually it doesn't in the end. It looks as though it is going to when the Paint Contrast action pauses with colour picker displayed but when Ok is typed then the paint contrast layer is added as a new layer and the underlying burn layer reappears.

@@datstheone1 at least, in the very video what you state my eyes do not see. Thanks, anyway.

@@Geers7Omoorstay I have double checked the video and done my own test and the Paint Contrast adjustment does not erase the Burn layer. Yes, it may look as though it does because of the way the layers are displayed at the point where it pauses for Colour Picker input, but once reply OK to Colour Picker that creates a new top layer and the original layers re-appear as they were before calling Paint Contrast as layers beneath the new Paint Contrast layer. If you pause the video at the point where Dave is filling the Paint Contrast layer you will see that the Burn Layer with the brush strokes is there. If Colour Picker is cancelled then Burn Layer reappears as top layer and no new Paint Contrast layer is created. I suspect this could be a timing issue with the Colour Picker dialogue pausing operations before Photoshop has sorted out the display of the layers. Having spent 6 months finding bugs in TK9 for Tony to fix before release I was concerned that I had missed something so fundamental. It may look wrong as it executes but end result is correct which is main thing.

Much appreciated David, you are absolutely correct. I have given myself the job of downloading the video and seeing it on a big screen, observing in detail each step of the edition exposed there. At the same time, I replicated the process again in Photoshop and, in both instances, I detected that the Paint Contrast action (minute 23:03), at creating a new empty layer and opening the Color Picker, does superimpose the new layer on top of the Burn layer (black paint), even without changing its name (something entirely anomalous that Dave Kelly seemed not notice) but when it is finished, it makes the Burn (black paint) layer reappear as it was, placing the Paint Contrast layer over it. That is to say, I was not raving when I reported such an anomaly, since it did occur, but such a reality lasted the activation time of the action, apparently due to a technological failure, to put the culprit in a black box (although I believe that the Paint Contrast action must have something to do with it), it was my natural haste that prevented me from noticing that the aforementioned reversal was taking place afterward. During my first observation of the video and replica of it, I opted to create an empty layer above the Burn (black paint) and only then I invoked the Paint Contrast action, which worked fine, but it left that empty layer in the layers palette, which must have been a red flag to me, but I missed it. This epistolary exchange has left me very grateful for giving me the opportunity to run into your person, someone so generous with his own space and time to enlighten me with simplicity and kindness about a partial observation of mine, who was also persistent in his idea when I found his statement unbelievable. This introspection has been a real pleasure for me because it was extremely valuable. @@datstheone1

@@Geers7Omoorstay Valiosa conversación ....Gracias a ambos....🤠👍

The intro spelling is correct, along with the Thumbnail and KZfaq Title. I got it wrong in the intro overlay (Oops). Thanks Steve.

Steve thank you for the Super Thanks.

Thank you for the Super Thanks.