Photoshop 7 Pattern Question

Hi, I hope someone with spme experience can help me. I have a pair of pants I made in Photoshop 7 I have used a pattern I made to fill the area and its good. My question is I have copied the wonderful templates for shading into a new layer and now I want to use my burn and dodge tools to create hilights but it seems when I try nothing shows up on the pattern itself, it effects the fill under the pattern but not the actual pattern.. So i have to basicly export to tga then open again and copy the templates into the tga and I can shade from there... Is there a way to apply the burn & dodge tools without having to go through this step? Maybe I am missing a setting in PS I need to apply first?

Any help would be appreciated.

I'm not sure exactly what the problem is from your description, but here's an option that should always work. Rather than burn & dodge the working layer, put an overlay layer on top, and burn & dodge that. Here's how:

1. Above whatever layer(s) you want to affect, create a new layer, and set its blend mode to Overlay.

2. Fill the overlay layer with 50% gray.

3. Now use your burn & dodge tools on the overly layer. As you darken or lighten any area of the overlay, you'll see the effects projected onto the layer(s) below.

Note, the overlay layer itself is invisible as long as it's 50% gray. It only serves to cast light and shadow onto whatever is below it. Since 50% gray represents absolute neutrality, the gray parts can't affect anything. As soon as you start darkening or lightening though, you appear to change the appearance of whatever is below the overlay.

The beauty of working this way is that it's totally nondestructive. Don't like the results? No problem, just throw out that overlay and make another. You don't have to worry about making the whole image over again, just the one layer. Want to put the same lighting/shading onto several different garments? Just copy & paste the overlay from one to the next. Got an image that's made of a million little pieces, all on separate layers, and you don't want to flatten it just to give it shading? An overlay will come to the rescue on that too. Want more precise, ultra-sharp control over every last shadow and highlight? Ditch the burn & dodge tools for a minute, and use a paint brush paint the lighting exactly how you want it. White paint will make things as bright as they can possibly be. Black will make them as dark as they can get. All shades of gray fall in between, just as you'd expect.

Overlays are really powerful, and very simple to use. Have fun.

Awesome thank you!! Yes this will help

Oh, one thing I almost forgot. Overlays won't have any impact on anything that is already pure white or pure black. So if you need to affect blacks & whites with your lighting/shading, experiment with other blending modes. Hard Light works pretty well over just about anything, but it can be a little harsh.