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Re: Saving picture with mask

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Subject: Re: Saving picture with mask
From: FFL <freefl at free dot fr>
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 00:48:53 +0100
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Joseph J. Strout dixit, le 28/01/05 à 11:10 :

Oh, well then that's easy. Simply make a picture, fill the background with whatever you want the background to be (i.e., what will be mixed with the picture), draw your masked picture into this, and then pass it to FolderItem.SaveAsPicture or SaveAsJPEG or whatever.

This is correct if I want to add a subject onto a lanscape, for example. This is the classic use (and supposed original purpose) of masking, but i am in some experimentation here.

What i want to do is modify the image with color tint or some other effect i can obtain onscreen (but cannot understand clearly since the documentation is quite mute on these calculations...) You can easily see by yourself : make a canvas, draw an image in its backdrop, draw something in its backdrop.mask (try a plain light color, definitely not grey) and admire the effect. Nobody did this before ? I can't believe this!

The effect is quite different from overlaying another canvas with the same color and some grey mask.
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