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Alright, here we go with part 2! If you need to catch up, check out part 1 here. There’s lots of fun, new stuff to learn today. A big part of today’s lesson is about:
Layer masks
Adding a layer mask is a great way to control the opacity of portions of a layer. We have all that plasma cloud on one layer, but we only want the colors from that to show up on our letters. So we use a layer mask to make the parts around the letters disappear. The online Gimp documentation explains a little bit more about layer masks:
A transparency mask can be added to each layer, it’s called Layer mask. A layer mask has the same size and same pixel number as the layer to which it is attached. Every pixel of the mask can then be coupled with a pixel at the same location in the layer. The mask is a set of pixels in gray-tone on a value scale from 0 to 255. The pixels with a value 0 are black and give a full transparency to the coupled pixel in the layer. The pixels with a value 255 are white and give a full opacity to the coupled pixel in the layer.
So, here’s the video of what we did:
Another important lesson I learned today is that I still have a lot to learn. I sure do appreciate you stopping by to see what I’m doing. If you have a minute, please leave a comment and say hello.
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This site takes a lot of the work out of learning this software. Thanks for the tips and tutorials Big Dan!
Thanks Chad