Here we are going to learn how I make Masks.
I have not really found a tutorial that I liked, not that there aren't good ones
out there, just none for dummies like me...

This first thing I do is I find an image that I want to turn into a mask.
This is the one I am going to use for this tutorial.

Yes, we can make this into a mask..Just follow along and you will see
how we do it here.
Now go to Colors, Adjust, Brightness/Contract.

A window is going to pop up...Use the settings I have used.

Now this is what your image looks like now.

Now click your color palette..Make the foreground color Black.
Go to your brush and make the settings as I have them.

Using your brush color in the center white with the black.
Your image will end up looking like this.

We are almost done now...You can either save it now as a jpg or
we can continue and save it as a msk.
Go up to Masks, New, From Image.

A window is going to pop up. Use the settings I have here.

Go back up to Masks and now Save to Disk should be there, click it.

A new window pops up for you to name it and save it...I named mine sun.msk.

Now when you want to use this mask, all you have to do is go to Masks,
Load from Disk, find the folder you put it in and click on it...And bamm...
You have your new Mask. See that wasn't too hard, was it?

Tutorial by Leigh

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