
Read the full tutorial here.
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There is a way to do this, yes. First, you'd need to create one window shape from the four window squares. To do that, select all four in the Layers sidebar, Control-click one, and choose Unite Shapes. You'd need to do this before combining the house and window shape, so it should not be inside any nested shape. Screenshot below:2019-05-08 22:52:58 Hey st3f
Very cool!
Thank you very much for pointing out what now seems so obvious. How come I didn't see this up to now...?
Now dear Wizards behind Pixelmator, since I'm here anyway: this would be perfect if it would work on Layer-Groups too. E.g. in the house of st3f up there: put all window-squares in one group, then mark the group and the path and cut all the squares out with one click on substract.
Or is there already a obvious way to do that I missed again?
Probably the simplest way to do this is to apply an Image fill effect to a layer mask. To do that, select the mask, choose Format > Effects > Fill > Image, then you can drop any kind of layer into the image well in the Tool Options pane. To edit the position of the object in the mask, click the Edit button next to the name of the effect.
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To be honest, my method didn't work that well for my brain either, the video is evidence of that!
Glad to hear we were able to help!2020-03-24 21:00:00 @Stef and @Andrius,
Thanks for the quick responses.
Have applied the method of Jef, and it works!
Andrius' working method, on the other hand, looks very practical!
I was just figuring out how to select those rings myself, and with this video clip I learned something again! Thanks.
I will definitely try out this working method.
Thanks again and greetings from Belgium!
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And that is exactly what I want! (I mean that literally — I want a circle as a clipping mask.)When you create a clipping mask, any transparent areas of the clipping mask layer will mask out those same areas of any layers ‘clipped’ to it. In simpler terms, if you create a clipping mask from a circle and clip a photo to it, any parts of the photo outside the circle will be hidden.
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You're 100% correct, I should've totally made that clearer! I've updated the tutorial to include this info.
Does GIMP have clipping masks? I'm not sure about Inkscape, but clipping masks are a relatively rare feature in image editors and I'm not sure I've seen it in GIMP.
Happy to help!
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Shape, Opacity, Stroke, Mask and Color are each interdependent, and define the development of the Pixelmator family.
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This is a rather late reply if you needed this done in time for Christmas, and you, hopefully, worked this out in the end, however – the gist of what you'd need to do is:2020-12-21 00:35:02 First, let me say I'm a complete newbie, so I'm sure that the answer to my question is extremely basic, and I apologize in advance.
I have used the quick selection tool to isolate my Christmas tree on an image. What I want to do, is fill in the background with my full image, at a lesser opacity, add text around the tree so that the text can be read over the background, and have just my tree be full color and opacity. To be honest, I'm having trouble figuring out how to add text around the tree, never mind a third layer with a lesser opacity image. I thought I could use the inverse selection to create a mask, and add text to that, but that isn't working either.
Please help! and again, I'm sure this is extremely basic, I'm sorry.
If I've correctly understood what you'd like to do, then I'd say you'd probably need to duplicate the cam1 layer twice (so you have three cam1 layers in total) and apply each mask to each layer. But I guess I could be wrong if you only want to apply the masks to a particular channel, in which case you'd probably need to isolate each channel using the Channel Mixer adjustment (again, in each duplicated layer) and then mask those layers, blending them using the required blending modes (which I can't recall off the top of my head). Though I can't guarantee it will work without having tried it.
True, true. But we also don't want to break any existing wheels (i.e. confuse people who might have a mask selected without noticing and then paste into it accidentally). Maybe that's an edge case, though.
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