Part 1 DisDat Designs PSP6 Masked Effects - Part 1 Please email me first if you would like to offer any of my tutorials to your groups or classes. Thank you very much. This tutorial was written for psp'ers who have a good working knowledge of PSP 6. Masks are confusing and sometimes hard to understand. My theory is that their use is so varied that it is hard to get a handle on them.
Masks are grayscale.
The black portion of a mask will clear what ever it is placed on, and the white part will leave it as is. So, if you have a big black circle in the middle of a white background and you apply that as a mask, then the image you applied it on will have cleared area in the middle the size of the big circle, but the rest of the image will be the same. Any gray colors in the mask, will be faded depending on how dark the gray is. Open up the image that you would like to use for these effects. A color photograph works well.