My first tutorial ~ Using Masks~

This tut was written for Rose who asked how to use masks. It is a very simple, basic level tut which hopefully you'll find easy to understand! Bear with me, i've never written a tut before lol

OK so all you need for this is PSP (i use x2 but it should work in any version), and a mask of your choice (I'm using my Caress mask which can be downloaded from my blog).

So what IS a mask exactly??? Simply put, a mask is like a stencil..imagine you have a piece of card and you cut a circle out of it, place the card on another object and spraypaint where the circle was cut out...your result will be a painted circle on the other object :) A mask is exactly the same.

Ok so to show you very simply...

1. Open your mask in psp
2. Open a new image 500x500
3. Floodfill this layer with a colour of your choice (i'm using white)
4. Add a new layer and floodfill with another colour (i'm using black for this layer)
5. Go to layers > new mask layer > from image and select the name of your mask from the dropdown menu. if you're using my Caress mask, make sure "invert mask data" is checked. Click OK.
6.If you don't like the look of the mask, you can go to layers > Invert mask/adjustment and see if you like that better.
7. When you're happy with how your mask looks, go to your layers pallette, RIGHT click Mask layer and select Merge>Merge Group. Your end result should look something like this:



And thats it. You just applied your first mask. But i warn you...they're addictive LOL

Until next time

~Cricket~