Masks

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A mask is nothing more than a stencil.  The white part is where nothing will show up, and the black part is what will show after you get thru.  Like painting your name on a mailbox.  If you use a stencil, you can paint all over the stencil, but the only thing that shows up is where the stencil is cut out.  You can make a mask out of any black & white image as long as the color is set to 16 million colors.
There are several ways of using a mask.  This will be a multi part tutorial.  In this one, we are going to make a mask from a black and white .jpg.

This is what we are aiming for:

For this tutorial, you will need Paint Shop Pro, and Fantastic Machines Tile Tool, a demo version is available here.  Unzip your FM Tile Tools into your Jasc PSP Plug In Folder.

You will also need this picture, just right click and save to your hard drive.

And this mask image, just right click and save to your hard drive.

OK, now, open up your PSP, then go to File, Open, and find your Fairy picture, and your mask image.  You can minimize your mask image if you want.  Click on your Fairy image to make sure it is the active image, then hold down the shift key, and click on D.  This will duplicate your image.  You can then close your original Fairy picture.

Then go to Masks, New, From Image:

Then a box will come up where you can choose your mask you want to use.  Since we are only using one, there will just be the one listed there, so we highlight the TornEdgedmask.jpg, make sure Source Luminance is checked, and Invert mask data is checked, then click OK:

Your mask will automatically size itself to your picture.  Your picture will then look like this:

Then we go back to Masks, and Delete (this is important), a box will pop up, asking if you want this mask merged into the current layer? click Yes:

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