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help system Piers Cornwell <piers.cornwell@bigfoot.com> who has taken the burden to continue this project Karin and Olof started. --Sven
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1.9 KiB
HTML
42 lines
1.9 KiB
HTML
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
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<HTML>
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<HEAD>
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<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
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<TITLE>Add Layer Mask</TITLE>
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</HEAD>
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<BODY text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#0000FF" vlink="#FF0000" alink="#000088">
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<TABLE width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1">
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<TR bgcolor="black">
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<TD width="100%" align="center"><FONT size="+2" color="white">Add Layer
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Mask</FONT></TD>
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</TR>
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<TR bgcolor="white" >
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<TD width="100%" align="left"><P>
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<P>
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Will add a layer mask to the currently active layer. A layer mask is a way
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to control transparency of the current layer . The mask it self is a grayscale
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"image" where black pixels will make the layer totally transparent and white
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pixels will make it opaque.
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<P>
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The fill dialog enables you to choose the initial fill of the layer mask.
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Black which will make the layer totally transparent, white which will make
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the layer totally opace or the alpha channel of the layer. When you choose
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the alpha channel the transparency of each pixels will be mapped to a grayscale
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value in the mask. If you want to further manipulate the transparency in
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a layer this can be a very good option (e.g maybe you have softly erased
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some parts of the image and want to continue to manipulate the transparency).
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<P>
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To work with the layer mask you have to active it, you do that by clicking
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on the thumbnail image of the mask. However you will not see the mask you
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will just see the result of your mask operations. To see the mask you have
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to <ZZZZ> click on the thumbnail. If you want to see you layer without
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the mask you have to <ZZZZ> click on the thumbnail. Remember
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to to click one again with the same modification key to exit the current
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"preview" state.
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<P>
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<A href="index.html">Index</A>
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</TD>
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</TR>
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</TABLE>
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</BODY></HTML>
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