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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

graphics: Understanding general concept of masking in desingning tools e.g. Photoshop, Fireworks etc

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Have you ever come across the word masking. I always used to get scared to hear the word when I started using different designing tools. Actually, the concept of mask is very simple and powerful. The following illustration will make it clear why we use masks in designing.
1. How to entangle these, The simplest application of masking
2. Oops Not entangled

3. Lets Duplicate the blue and sandwich the red...
4. Here comes in the concept of Mask why not mask. Mask equivalent to Hiding a portion...



5. Drag the unmasked or the unhidden portion of duplicate pic over orignal
6. Yup. There it is. The portion overlapping is masked away...

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