Luminance Masks

[Richie]

Hi all,

I'm new to this board. Right now I use Photoshop but I'm interested in switching to PSP. Unfortunately I was not able, using the trial version, if somethings very important is possible with PSP: Self feathering masks using the Luminance values. Because English is not my native language, so its difficult to describe for me. Because of that I think it's better to link to the best tutorial for photoshop I found (From Tony Kuyper):

http://goodlight.us/writing/luminositym ... sks-1.html

So the question is:
Can this also be done in PSP??

[LeviFiction]

I don't know if it's exactly the same. But you could try this.

When you create a mask inside of PSP you have a few options. "Show All" "Hide All" "Show Selection" "Hide Selection" and "From Image."

To create a Luminance Mask you will want to select "From Image" you can then select any image that is currently open inside of PSP to create a mask from.

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In the dialog select "Source Luminance" this will create a mask based on the luminance of the image you're using to create the mask.

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I demonstrate this method in the following video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCWAEHKVcCQ

Hope these help.

[Richie]

Thank you very much.

[Timberline]

I agree. Quite useful.