Encore Menu Layer Mask

Hello
I'm new to DVD/Blu-ray authoring with Encore. I want to create an animated/motion menu with a video in the background. However, I want the video to only show in a portion of the screen. For example, Encore has a template in their library called 'Television'. This menu template has a photograph of an old CRT television with a video of static displayed on its screen. I would like to create a menu template with Photoshop that utilizes the same effect but I don't know which application to use. The Encore Help documentation states that you can "resize or mask video in Premier or mask a portion of the video with a layer in the menu". I can't figure out if you can mask the video layer with Encore or if you can do it in Photoshop. It seem logical to be able to do it Photoshop but I can't determine how. Any suggestions?

The video you import to Encore (or dynamic link) must be what you see in the background. so, for example, in Premiere, scale the video to the size/location you want, and import a PSD for the foreground. But the exported movie from PR will have the still and moving parts of the background.
Help files re motion menus, primarily using After Effects:
Here's encore help:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/encore/cs/using/WSA5513911-0AD1-440c-BDAD-2E0E806B425E.html
Here's an adobe tutorial on using AE for EN menus:
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/?id=vid0258
From the After Effects help:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7e45 a.html

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Can anybody say why In the layer menu, the background color is white when opening a layer mask, and why does it automatically turns black by simply opening the layer mask properties menu? The vector mask is white anyway.

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I work on digital-photography files, and use a layer mask in almost every file, so this relatively-recent bug is a big PITA, having to switch back and forth between CS6 and CC!
Until there's a fix... is there a way to roll-back my PS CC version to BEFORE the JAN 15, 2014 update?

I am not qualified to comment on technical issues; I'm just a user whose son in IT is my 'technical support department.' (But he's not much of a PS user.)
I'm pretty sure, however, that all my Prefs were set to the same things BEFORE the Jan 16, 2014 PS CC update as after (unless the update itself changed something I was unaware of... the settings APPEARED to be the same but I can't easily locate my notes of what my Prefs were from long ago).
And they were the same as the PS CS6 I have had installed on this same system for a very long time, with older video card with older driver, with newer driver; newer video card with newest driver, etc. Yet after that CC update, CC has not (until this workaround) worked re 'the masking bug' for me, yet CS6 has always worked just the same.
So I conclude that the only variable (other than the video card upgrade I did in an attempt to solve this and of course those Windows auto-updates) in this scenario IS something to do with PS *CC*, and after Jan 16, 2014.
As for restarting the machine vs. restarting PS, well, PS is the major player of my system, so when I shut that (and LR) down, I might as well 'clean things up' by Restarting. BTW, I am in the habit of closing and reopening PS (CC or CS6) whenever I finish with a file and load another, in order to get back some of that memory which PS never seems to want to let go. (This is not new to the latest versions, I think. My son says it's a 'memory hog'? ;-) ) I track its memory use in Windows' Task Manager and find that seems to let it 'refresh' itself. (See, I told you I'm not a technical person. ;-) ) But I do not think this has anything to do with the bug. Just a quirk of PS. Like when a tool goes all wonky (for example, its little icon becomes just a 'plus' sign even though the tool is still performing correctly, it's telling me, I think, that it would like to be restarted. And that makes it feel all better... I mean, tool icon reappears.)
Anyway... it's up to Adobe to figure out IF and what may be wrong with PS CC -- it still doesn't work for me as I had it configured at first, and I think it should, right? -- and to fix that... PLEASE. SOON.

Why doesn't Photoshop always generate a layer mask

I believe it was in CS4 that Adobe expanded the use of automatic layer masks ... perhaps it was with adjustment layers (I'm not quite sure)
I don't know about others, but it would save me considerable time in the long run if every new layer, (whether it is generated as a copy, from a plug-in, as a cut, or as a new blank layer) recevied an automatic layer mask. It takes no file space, but more often than not I find myself needing one. It sure would be nice to jump right into masking rather than having to first create the layer mask. Why did they stop at adjustment layers?
Am I alone in this?
thanks

Adding layers like Text, Raster and smart objects never have had automatic layers mask added. Adding adjustment layers always came with an automatic layer mask until CS4. Adode introduced bugs in CS4 when they added the adjustment panel these bugs have been carried forward into CS5 and CS6. Adobe added two options in the adjustment panels fly-out panel. These options are designed to be global, not just adjustment panel options. These options only work sometimes when changed from their default settings. When changed from their default settings they try to change Photoshop historic default operation. When you change Photoshop default operation Action, Scripts and Plug-ins that add adjustment layers may not work correctly. Adobe should fix Photoshop and remove the two bad Adjustment Panel fly-out options. The Adjustment Panel fly-out menu option to not add Layer masks can not be safely set, same goes for the option to always clip added layer mask, if you use Actions, Scripts and Plug-ins that add adjustment layers.

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Omega0401 a écrit:
I'm using PSE 11 and layers masks. If you click on the layer mask thumbnail you have the option of "add mask to selection" and "intersect mask to selection". They both select the same area of the photo. So I use the help menu and go online and type in the same phase with quotes and it comes up no document found. How does someone learn about a feature in an app and yet don't have information on that feature? This is where people get frustrated with the help.
Using masks and selections are advanced workflows which justify a lot of tutorials and even whole books. Not something a tool description can achieve, especially when it deals with the interaction between two different, though similar ways to select areas of an image.
So...if anyone knows what the difference is, please let me know or how it's used. Thx
When you understand masks and selection, you know that you can:
- go from mask to selection and vice versa
- combine selections (add, substract, intersection...)
The contextual menu you are seeing lets you combine selections with masks without turning the mask into another selection.
Try this:
- duplicate the background
- desaturate the duplicate (Ctrl Shift U)
- add a mask
- Paint a part of the mask with black. That part shows in colour inside the grey background.
- now use the lasso tool to cover a part of the masked area plus a part of the rest.
- use the contextual menu and you should see the intersection.

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First off, let me state that I am a *total* Ps newbie…My question regards the following: In Ps CS6, I cropped an area using the Marquee Tool. Then, I Added [a] Layer Mask from the Layers Panel. Next, I turned off the Indicates layer mask is linked to layer BUTTON, clicked the Smart Object Thumbnail, and moved the image using the Move Tool. Now, I right-clicked on the Layer Mask Thumbnail in order to Apply Layer Mask but it is de-highlighted. This is my problem. I cannot figure out how to Apply [the] Layer Mask. (I hope this all made sense.) Can someone please tell me how to do this in CS6? TY.

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http://help.adobe.com/en_US/PhotoshopElements/7.0_Win/WSae2ea3b149d0c3591ae939f103860b3d59 -7f85.html
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Layer mask missing from my adjustment layer

Hello Photoshop gang,
Sometimes when I make an Adjustment layer (like a Vibrance Adjustment) the layer will either have or not have an attached layer mask thumbnail. It lately is NOT showing a layer mask thumbnail. When I have an active selection and then make an Adjustment Layer, it then does have an attached Layer Mask Thumbnail. On another computer, I do the same Adjustment Layer creation, and it DOES automatically have a Layer Mask thumbnail. What is happening on this one computer that causes it to NOT have the Layer Mask thumbnail?
Hope this is clear enough!
Mike Witherell in Silver Spring, MD

There's a preference for whether you want a layer mask automatically added.
Look in the ADJUSTMENTS panel's fly out menu:
-Noel

Layer mask option delete not working

hi, new to forum. Looked up everything before posting now lost!
usually I can create an adjustment layer make changes, then option+delete and erase where I want the changes to take effect. but now I can not, option delete doesn't work and brings back the following error:
"Invalid numeric entry. An integer between -180 and 180 is required. Previous value inserted." I've tried resetting everything, uninstalling, etc. nothing seems to work. anyone know how to fix this?
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I used to be able to add a layer mask by option delete
I think you are mistaken, option-delete fills with the foreground color, it does not add Layer Masks.
Is "Add Mask by Default" checked in the Adjustments Panel’s fly-out menu?

I can't get Layer Masks to work with PScc but works fine with CS6

When I create a layer mask it shows up properly but doesn't work at all. I have the correct layer selected and I'm painting in black (and nothing happens in white either) and there is no problem when doing exactly the same thing with CS6 so I thought there might be a difference in my settings but I can't see any. My masks are NOT disabled in properties. Nothing shows up on the image nor on the mask. I can however, use the eraser tool as normal. Any ideas?
Thanks!

PLease could you help me too. I have been onto support through several emails and online helps and they do not understand the problem correctly and have not resolved it. I have photoshopcc 2014. If I click on add layer mask icon I get a white thumbnail. That seems ok. I then select a brush - set to normal etc. all ok. Then I attempt to either brush in or out on my photo to reveal or hide bits of layer below and it no longer works.
Weirdly, I noticed it was not selected in channels. So I checked the layer mask in channels and then back in layers it works except now it works by painting on a rubylith (which it did not do before 2014 version) then when I am done if I click apply mask everything works ok and it is done. It just does not work unless I select in channels.
This also happens if I apply an adjustment layer. The adjustment comes into the thumbnails with a mask and the mask is unselected in channels, I have to select and it paints a ruby lith.
If I go to layers in the menu however and select layer mask hide all or reveal all then select my brush it works fine and as it normally did before.
I have tried re installing etc. and every bit of normal advice but nothing works. Can you help or do you know anyone who can. As I am desperate here is my email: [email protected]
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Seems OK now - don't know what I changed !!

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