Thanks Martin, watched that as I couldn't find the relevant bit in the DVDs, and thanks Ian (opacity and flow) - I'm going to spend a couple of days messing about and then will report back, I suspect it is that as you say on the video, this is for smaller adjustments (I've now adopted it the d&b layers for that) whereas what I have in one area is a pure white I need to take down. In the wet darkroom I would have burned for ages, almost until the paper gave up due to reciprocity failure. What I don't want is a bland "grey" which is taking no account of the variations of white/grey that were there. It is a tent top showng white but there are often little ares like this. In my world I crop, dodge and burn, brightness/contrast and that's it so I want to get it right.
You're both very kind to help in this way.
You're both very kind to help in this way.
