SEP
12
2006
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Krita 1.6: Layer MasksThis is a small blog about layer masks, so that Sander can hopefully use it for the documentation (documentation, yay!). So, how to create a mask? There are 2 ways:
Editing the mask: First, make sure you are editing the mask, not the layer, by making sure Layer -> Mask -> Edit Mask is checked. (This is checked by default.) Then you can paint on the layer just like before, only now you are painting on the mask, instead of on the layer itself. To stop painting on the mask, you can uncheck the Edit Mask checkbox. There's also the option to show the mask, through checking Layer -> Mask -> Show Mask. (This is not checked by default). This option will render the entire layer as a visual representation of the mask in greyscale, instead of the actual layer. This can be handy to see where your mask is, but it might be not as handy when you want to edit it, since you can't look at the actual layer. Other actions: you can also remove the mask if you are not satisfied with it, and want to start over again, or just want to remove it, with Layer -> Mask -> Remove Mask. You can also 'apply' the mask, meaning that the mask will be made permanently. This means that the mask is removed, but that its effect of transparency will be committed to the layer. Good, that concludes the actual documentation part of the blog entry. You might have noticed that the UI aspect of this sucks. And I concur. This has none of the usual gimmicks you get with masks in the GIMP, like it appearing in the layer box. This has a reason: apparently it was a bit difficult to integrate it in the current layerbox, but I was told this kind of thing would be much easier in the KOffice 2 layerbox. So I didn't really bother to invest much effort into hacks that wouldn't be needed in the next version anyway. This all means that KOffice2/Krita2 might be something to look forward to, if I can fix it there :)
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