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  • mask confused

    Posted by Klauso1 on February 1, 2006 at 10:38 pm

    thank you chris but when I tried I lost the rest. this is the scenairo I imported text file from illustrator (keep on trying) as one file in the comp window I use the Pen tool to mask each word say keep to be mask 1 and on to be mask2 as follows
    but as soon as I mask one the comp window is blackout losing the rest. I tried the control key which was succesful but can see the words.
    what am I doing wrong.
    thank you

    Klauso1 replied 20 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Al

    February 2, 2006 at 12:00 pm

    i’m not sure of your exact problem but this might help–

    once you have used the pen tool to create the first mask – go to your layer and reveal the mask properties (click on the layer and press M).

    In the drop down menu, you’ll see that your mask is by default set to Add (by memory!) Try selecting None.

    This will mean you can keep adding masks to your layer and still see your layer.

    Once you’ve added all your masks, then you can go back and change it back to Add.

  • Klauso1

    February 2, 2006 at 10:14 pm

    thank you muiisal it worked

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