Metal Flakes - am I too stupid?

Raziel.Kanos

I want to use the metal flakes option to bring some golden markings on my characters. I created a black and white mask, and all shows as it should, BUT there, where the black parts of my mask is, the sin gets darker, significantly!

from my uderstanding, where the black is, nothing is affecting my base layer - so why is iut with the metal flakes?

any idea how i can fix that?

Richard Haseltine

Where are you putting this mask?