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Creating and Using Masks II: Bi-Colors
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Creating and Using Masks II: Bi-Colors
Created by: Kawliga
 
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Standard Toolbar - Open (image) button Open "glacier.jpg" from your download.
 
Let's turn this image into a mask: Go to Masks || New || From Image:
– Source window = This Window
– Source luminance = selected
– Invert mask data = checked
 

You will now see the white areas in the image as transparent.

Save this mask to disk: go to Masks || Save To Disk, name it "glacier.msk" and click on the Save button.

Now close the original glacier image without saving.
 
Standard Toolbar - New (image) button Open a new image, 150 x 100 pixels, background transparent, 16 million colors.
 
PSP5 & PSP6 Foreground/Background Color Palette Set your foreground color to yellow (Red = 255, Green = 255, Blue = 128) and your background color to red (Red = 192, Green = 0, Blue = 0).
 

Tool Palette - Flood Fill tool

Select your Floodfill tool on the Tool palette:

PSP 5:
– Fill Style = Solid Color
– Match Mode = None
– Tolerance = doesn't matter
– Opacity = 100
– Sample merged = unchecked

PSP 6:
– Fill style = Solid Color
– Blend mode = Normal
– Paper texture = None
– Match mode = None
– Tolerance = n/a
– Opacity = 100
– Sample merged = unchecked
 

Layer Palette - Create layer button		 Left-click into the image to fill it with the foreground color. Hold the Shift key and click on the "New Layer" icon in your layer palette to create a new layer, then right-click into your image to fill this second layer with your background color.
 

Now, apply the mask: Go to Masks || Load From Disk and select "glacier.msk".

Your image should now be a yellow glacier with a red outline.

When you are happy with the color combination, delete and merge the mask: Go to Masks || Delete and click on Yes when prompted to merge the mask with the layer.