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Corel Photo-Paint 9
Using the Clip Mask
on Text
by Joyce Evans
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Open the
file you made from the bitmap fill tutorial we named
bitmaptext. |
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Add an object (layer) it is the icon at the bottom of
the Object Docker to the left of the trash can. If your
Object Docker isn't open the go to Window|Dockers|Object |
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We are going to weave some rope through our letters.
Go to Window|Dockers|artistic Media and scroll down
to where you see brown rope and click on it |
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We'll need
to make it a bit smaller for our purposes. Go to the properties
bar and next to Brown Rope you'll see a number 14, change
this to 10. |
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Now draw the rope onto your new object layer. If for some
chance it doesn't draw on the white or over the letters.
Then you may still have a mask, just remove it. |
 Remove Mask
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We are going to use the clip mask now.
Check to be sure that your rope is selected click on
the object layer you added, it should be at the top).
Make a mask of this object, Mask|create from object
(Ctrl-M).
To make this a Clip Mask, Object|Clip
Mask|Create|From Mask. Check the Object docker, you'll
see another thumbnail for the Clip Mask and the red
rectangle indicates it is active.
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To protect
our text we are going to load the mask we saved in the
Bitmap tutorial. Mask|Load|textmask |
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Click on the Paint brush tool and on the properties
bar you will see a brush, click on the down arrow and
choose the Art Brush and then Quick Doodler. |
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Check the bottom status bar and see that the Paint
is black and then paint out the rope you don't want.
If you make an error and you'd like parts of the rope
back then simply change the Paint to white and paint
over it, walla, it's back. |
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This is what I came up with. You can remove
the mask now.
To get rid of the Marquee (marching ants, dotted line)
Object|Marquee visible and uncheck this command is in
the Mask menu also. |
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Let's add a drop shadow now. Click on Object 3 (the
object you made from the bitmap fill tutorial when you
combined the text and bitmap. The layer below our new
layer)
We'll apply a quick drop shadow, click on the drop shadow
tool, select flat bottom right. |
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You can change the depth and position of the shadow
by dragging the black box you see here it's on the O).
When you have the shadow you like, then save or export
as desired. |
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