Masking An Image

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by user name » Fri Jan 22, 2010 11:05 pm

Thanks guys. Hopefully I'll be getting to this process this weekend/next week. The wife is going away for work for the week, so I should have some time to actually make a cover again. Thanks again for those tips. I have such great ideas in my head, but then when I try and actually make the cover I fall way short every time. I have some good ideas, just not the techniques to do them....lol...

by bazzah » Fri Jan 22, 2010 9:01 pm

LittleCoolDude wrote:
QUOTE (LittleCoolDude @ Jan 22 2010, 08:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I just copy the entire layer over with the mask intact and then make changes to the mask as needed. If anyone does it different please post, I'd like to learn all the time :)


Or yeah, drag and drop the masked layer would be the best way, so you can preserve the mask for future adjustments

by bazzah » Fri Jan 22, 2010 9:00 pm

Just copy and paste it :) Deselect all the layers you dont want copied (ie the background) and CTRL+SHIFT+C to copy all. Or, you could save it as a png24 file with a transparent background :)

by LittleCoolDude » Fri Jan 22, 2010 8:59 pm

I just copy the entire layer over with the mask intact and then make changes to the mask as needed. If anyone does it different please post, I'd like to learn all the time :)

by user name » Fri Jan 22, 2010 8:43 pm

I still haven't tried this yet, but after doing the masking, is it then possible to take the cut out image and paste it onto a cover? if so, how. I know I should probably just try it, but I just don't have the time to go through the process at the moment. Thanks to anyone who can explain this part to me.

by gizmo1962 » Thu Apr 02, 2009 3:41 pm

many thanks for the tut it look usefull so i will try and cut my image out this way ;) ;)

by Fubster » Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:52 pm

Skallywag® wrote:
QUOTE(Skallywag® @ Jan 10 2008, 04:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Exactly the same

Actually I noticed one small difference when I followed this tut originally.

2. With the copied background layer selected, click on 'Add Vector Mask, in your layers window.

The menu option in CS2 that you need to click is Layer | LayerMask | Reveal All. (Unless my menu options are different for some reason...)

Othat than THAT, it is exactly the same.

by bazzah » Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:27 pm

yes! I haven't tried it on CS2, but it should work

by user name » Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:24 pm

So is this tut similar in CS2?

by Ruso gkn » Mon Dec 24, 2007 12:10 am

Haha,, It's my boy... Tks DarrenB.

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