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Show
All, Hide All, & From Image
This tutorial
is written in and for PSP8 and assumes you have
a working knowledge of PSP.
YOU
WILL NEED:
JASC's PSP8 (30
day free trial) - You can get it HERE
A graphic - I used the Leaves image from the Sample
Images provided by JASC. You will find them at C:\Program
Files\JASC Software, Inc.\PSP8\Sample Images
This part of the Mystery of Masks
series explains how the Show All and Hide All works
when creating a Mask.
Screenshots
are resized and compressed for faster loading.
When you create a new mask layer,
you have your choice of Show All, Hide All, or from
an Image.
You can also access the Show
All from the Layer Palette by clicking on the show
all mask.
When you choose Show All it will
show the underlying pixels and the underlying image
will appear unchanged. You can then paint it with
greys or blacks to hide, or fade, portions of the
layer.
Open the image that you want to work with in PSP.
Duplicate your image (Shift+D). The
main reason for making a copy is in case I want
to use the image again and forget to change the
name when I save *S* You can close out your original
graphic.
Go to Layers/New Mask Layer/Show All or click on
the Show All Mask on your layer palette, as shown
above. Remember, masks are grey scale. Your material
palette will now show black, white and various shades
of grey.
Activate your paintbrush tool, 
.
I just used the default settings. I will show you
how the black and different shades of grey works
with painting on your mask. When using black, it
appears that you are erasing the image.
Turn off the visibility of your
Mask layer, click on the eye and a red x will appear,
you will see that the original image hasn't changed.
If you change your foreground
color to a dark grey it will appear to erase most
of the graphic, but will show a bit of the underlying
layer.
A medium grey will leave a lot
of the image and give it a faded effect.
This can be very useful when
you want to give a certain part of your graphic
to be faded. Let's see how to do this.
Activate your selection tool,
,
set it as a rectangle. Draw out a rectangle on your
image. I made my rectangle on the right side.
Set your foreground material
color to a medium grey. Activate your paint brush
and paint inside your rectangle. See how it fades
just that area?
Go to selections/invert. I then
activated my bottom layer (the one under your mask)
and applied a drop shadow (Effects/3D Effects/Drop
Shadow) with these settings.
(Offsets = 10; Opacity = 82; Blur=30.69)
This is how my image now looks.
You can delete your mask layer
now, layers/delete. PSP will ask you if you want
the mask to be merged into the layer below - Choose
No. Next we will see how the Hide All works.
You should be back to your original
image on one layer. When you choose Hide All, it
will hide all of the underlying pixels and the underlying
layer will be completely hidden. Again, your material
palette will have black, white and various shades
of grey to choose from. Paint the mask with white
or greys to show portions of the underlying layer.
Go to Layers/New Mask Layer/Hide
All. Your image disappears.
Activate your paintbrush tool.
I changed my brush to a square and increased the
size to 100 to show you how this works. Make your
foreground color white and paint down a streak on
your mask.
If you change the foreground
color to a medium grey and paint on your mask you
will see a more faded area.
You can also use the hide all
to show parts of your image as faded and part of
it not. Again, pick up your selection tool, set
as rectangle, and draw at a rectangle on your mask.
I went to the left side this time.
Activate your paint brush tool,
have your foreground color set to a medium grey
and paint in the rectangle.
Go to selections/invert. Change
your foreground color to White and paint in the
transparent area. Your image should now look like
this.
You can delete your mask layer
now, layers/delete. PSP will ask you if you want
the mask to be merged into the layer below - Choose
No. Next we will see how the From Image works.
You should be back to your original
image on one layer. When you create a mask from
an image, you have several options to choose from.
Source luminance is the luminance
value of the pixel colors. Lighter colors produce
less masking and darker colors produce more. With
any non zero value the transparent areas complete
mask the layer, there is no gradation to the masking.
Source opacity determines the degree of masking.
Fully opaque pixels produce no masking and partially
transparent pixels create more masking. Your best
bet on a graphic is to choose source luminance.
You can also choose to invert the mask date, which
reverses the transparency of the mask. Black pixels
will become white and white pixels will become black.
Go to Layers/New Mask Layer/From
Image. This is how the leaves came out.
If you want to save your mask
to disk, click on the save to disk icon on your
layer palette.
You will now get this dialog
box where you can add the name of your new mask.
I hope this tutorial helps you
understand creating masks using show all, hide all,
and from an image a little better. Next I will show
you how to a simple mask of your own and how to
apply this and masks that are already available
to you from JASC.
If you have
any problems, comments or questions please do not
hesitate to E-mail
me.
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