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Originally Posted by Kagayaki
Like this?
*pics*
What I did was:
Black background
Add grayscale brush
Duplicate layer
Layer > Layer Mask > From Transparency
Now brush the color on your new layer (the one with the mask).
Edit: Since the layer mask reduces the opacity of the color layer in some places, you might have to duplicate the color layer a few times or adjust the levels in the layer mask. So it's not a perfect method, but with some tweaking I think you can get what you want.
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That's interesting. Played with it for a few hours and...
...well, this method brings one or more problems to the result:
1) Color vibrance dies.
2) Layer duplications, output level editing, playing with layer styles > not only are the colors more visible, but the original brushes are as well (makes the unpleasant "halo" effect again).
3) Color transitions are hurt badly.
It might be me just setting stuff wrong...but it's downright impossible to blindly try to adjust several color layers and save the file over and over again just to see what changes I've made.
So that's 10+ hours spent on one sig just for curiosity's sake. All this for some transparency. I'll go pull my hair out now.
Thanks again for the input, any other ideas are very welcome.