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Open your
picture and write down the size of it. In our case this is 440x302
pixels. Close the picture or just put it aside. We shall work on our
mask now.
Open the mask and go to Format/Highlight Midtone Shadow and set the
Midtone to - 40.Go to Format/Image Size.
Click the
User-defined box (red arrow). Unclick the Keep aspect ratio box (1), and
set the Width to 220 pixels and the Height to 302 pixels (2).
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Use the Magic
Wand Tool (red arrow), set the Similarity to 50 (1). Click on the white
color in your mask (2). This should collect most of the white.
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Go to Edit/Fill/Color and set the Gray to 200 (red arrow). If you
are using a mask which hasn't been converted to grayscale, right click the Color box and select the color 200/200/200.
This step will fill in the white with gray. As you will see
later on, it will give our picture the glass look.
Go to Selection/None.
Open a New Image 440x302 (same size as our picture), Canvas: Black.
Copy the mask and Paste into the new image. Right click/ Duplicate, then
right click/Align/Right.
Your mask should be positioned as shown in the screenshot below.
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As you may
have noticed, our mask changed from Grayscale to RGB True Color. Click
on the RGB True Color icon (red arrow) to bring up the menu.
Click on Grayscale (8-bit) (1) and a new image will appear in your work
space. Close all masks except the Grayscale we just made, the last
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In this step we shall save our mask
to Easy Palette (EP)/Image Library.
Open your Image Library (I used
"My Library/masks"). Click on one of the thumbnails to the
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On the mask we
just made, Right Click/All. Right Click/Convert
to Object. Now you can drag your mask to the Image Library to the folder
of your choice. (It is a good idea to make your own folders).
Name the mask in Sample name (red arrow). You can now close your mask in
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for our picture, in the next part we'll work on the picture and finally
use the mask we just made. HAVE FUN!!!
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If you need any help with
this tutorial - or want to make suggestions to improve it -
please email
me!
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