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Corel Photo-Paint 9
Fun with Masking
by Joyce Evans
September 1, 2000
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Now we can apply some of the things we learned in
the Masking 1 & 2 tutorials.
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Open an image with a good forground subject and maybe
a background you aren't particularly fond of. I found
one of this little girl and her dog but the background
was too busy.
The first thing I did was mask out the girl. See
Masking part 2 and do steps 1-7 then stop and continue
with number 2 here.
This is what we will be doing: |
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You should be in the Objects docker with a selection
around your image, go to Mask|Invert
Don't worry about what the marching ants look like,
go to Effects|Blur|Zoom and zoom at 100%. Pretty cool.
But now she looks like she is floating in space.
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Let's save this selection. Go to Mask|Invert to select
just the girl and dog, then Edit|Copy
Then Edit|Paste as new document. Save it as a CPT
and we'll come back to that in a bit. |
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When I saw the neat zoom it looked like a hole sucking
up what was in it's path. Let's do something else here.
With you mask still active on the girl I went back
to Effects|Blur|Zoom at 100%. What I wanted to do was
totally eliminate the look of a person being there and
just look like a background. So I applied the Zoom about
5 times. |
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Now that I had my sucking hole I needed a person to
put in it. I don't have a lot of photos but I found
one I had from the Sports category that Eyewire was
giving away. This guy was in the corner of the picture
holding a basketball. It was the best I had so I went
with it. |
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I followed the same steps to extract the
man as I did for the girl, but instead of saving (but
it's not a bad idea to save it either) I pasted it as
a new object into my sucking hole document. Edit|Paste|As
object. |
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Click on the Mask transform tool, I selected
the distort button, second from the bottom and adjusted
the arrows until he looked like he was being sucked
in. |
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*TIP* When I did the mask for the man,
the edges were to hard and didn't blend well, so I went
back to the paint on mask and used a black brush (instead
of white) with a large soft brush to paint back the
mask in an irregular shape. |
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Back to the girl. I opened a background
image (admittedly not a very good one for the subject,
but it will give you the idea)
With this open, I opened the saved file
of the girl and dog, then with the selection tool I
dragged it onto the background scene and positioned. |
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The feet were kind of hanging out on top
of the bushes so I clicked on the transperancy brush
and used a large soft brush to paint through the bushes.
I also ran it around the edges of the girl to give it
a softer blend. |
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It sure doesn't look very comfortable,
rocks and cacti. But with a little more tweaking, maybe
use the perspective tool (in the position mode tool
bar, the same one the distort is in)
Have a great time with your new skills.
If you had a problem doing this tutorial then go back
and do Masking 1 & 2 until you understand what you
are doing, and can do it without a tutorial. When you
can do that, THEN you know it. |
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