![]() ![]() Now what is not revealed is in fact just transparent. I can draw more and you can see I can reveal even more of this so you can do all sorts of different things to reveal this layer using this layer below it with the clipping mask. You can see what is only visible where there is some sort of color as opposed to white in this layer here. I'm going to move this layer below just like I did the shape layer, select stars, and then say create clipping mask. So white versus yellow here or white versus black. I'm going to create a new layer and in this layer I'm going to draw. I'm going to use a pretty big brush there. Now I could select this layer and delete it and instead create another layer and let's use a brush tool here. So I can move this layer around and it will reveal a different part of the image. So I only see what is visible by where there is some sort of color in the shape layer. Sure enough when I do that, you can see this little arrow there that points down to the next layer, and you can see that the stars layer is masked using the shape layer. I'm going to select the stars layer and I'm going to say I want there to be a clipping mask for this layer. I'm going to just put that here underneath the stars layer. I'm going to create a rounded rectangle shape. Now I'm going to use a clipping mask here as my first example. I just double click on the Name in the Layers panel here and I can name it Stars and Beach. One is the beach and the other is the star field. So I've got the two images in one now and the way I know that is if I go to View and Show Layers, I'll get this list of layers and I can see that I've got two different layers here. Then I'm going to close this original one. So I'm going to go into this one and I'm going to select the entire thing and then I'm going to go into here and paste it. Let's use these two very contrasting images to demonstrate layers and masks. So let's open up a nice little picture of a beach here in Pixelmator and then in addition let's open up another image that is kind of a star field with a comet in it. On today's episode let's look at using layers and masks in Pixelmator. Video Transcript: Hi this is Gary with MacMost Now. ![]() ($39.99 new from Pixelmator and the Mac App Store, free update, 193 MB, release notes, macOS 10.Check out MacMost Now 788: Pixelmator Layers and Masks at YouTube for closed captioning and more options. Pixelmator Pro 1.6.2 also gains the capability to create a mask from an image using Format > Choose Mask, ensures scroll bars will always be visible when “Show scroll bars” is set to Always in System Preferences, addresses a freeze while opening very large documents, and fixes a bug that lost solid white or solid black layer masks when exporting to PSD. Option-clicking Add Mask in the Layers sidebar shortcut menu now adds a mask that reveals the contents of the masked layer instead of hiding everything.Command-Option-comma keyboard shortcut toggles layer visibility.Command-Option-G creates and releases clipping masks.Command-Shift-V inserts a new layer from the Finder.Command-I has been reassigned from the Invert adjustment to the new Invert command.The release also provides a grab bag of new and reassigned keyboard and mousing shortcuts, including: The Pixelmator Team has issued version 1.6.2 of its Pixelmator Pro image editing app with a new Replace Image feature (Command-Shift-R) that enables you to replace image layers while preserving their layer styles, color adjustments, effects, and other nondestructive features. ![]() #1661: Mimestream app for Gmail, auto-post WordPress headlines to Twitter and Mastodon, My Photo Stream shutting down.#1662: New Macs, 12 top OS features for 2023, vertical tabs in Web browsers, watchOS 9.5.1.#1663: Exploring the Apple Vision Pro, 12 more OS features coming in 2023, new Apple service features, Apollo shuts down. ![]()
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