On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Patrick Horgan <[email protected]> wrote: >> i'm curious how other people regard layer masks. In particular, which >> memory aids exist to remember when to use black and when to use white. >> > I think of it like illumination.
Cool. I think of it as a window or transparent overlay. If I imagine the mask as a "window" above the layer, then white is "clear" and anything darker than that is masked from view. [But after saying that: I do have to stop and think about it sometimes - after doing a lot of screen printing work, positive and negative space often get mentally blurred for me ;) Colors->Invert to the rescue.] Chris _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
