Re: Keyhole effect?

2020-04-15 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
The Group thing is kind of how Illustrator used to create masks. Not sure anymore I’ve been out of Illustrator for years now. Bob S > On Apr 15, 2020, at 12:02 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > Whenever I fail to add, "...or seemingly so based on 22 years of experience > in

Re: Keyhole effect?

2020-04-15 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Mark Waddingham wrote: > On 2020-04-15 02:30, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: >> Monte Goulding wrote: >> >>> If I understand what you want correctly then: >>> >>> Create image >>> Create mask object >>> Group both >>> Set the ink of the mask object to blendDstIn >>> Set the ink of the

Re: Keyhole effect?

2020-04-15 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2020-04-15 02:30, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Monte Goulding wrote: If I understand what you want correctly then: Create image Create mask object Group both Set the ink of the mask object to blendDstIn Set the ink of the group to blendSrcOver Super, Monte. That works well. I

Re: Keyhole effect?

2020-04-14 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Monte Goulding wrote: > If I understand what you want correctly then: > > Create image > Create mask object > Group both > Set the ink of the mask object to blendDstIn > Set the ink of the group to blendSrcOver Super, Monte. That works well. I was up late with a tool I'd made to let me walk

Re: Keyhole effect?

2020-04-14 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Brian Milby wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 5:32 PM Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> Back in the day I could easily make a sort of keyhole effect, in >> which I used one graphic to obscure an image, and a second graphic >> on top as a mask to define a shape (such as a keyhole) through >> which I

Re: Keyhole effect?

2020-04-14 Thread Monte Goulding via use-livecode
If I understand what you want correctly then: Create image Create mask object Group both Set the ink of the mask object to blendDstIn Set the ink of the group to blendSrcOver Like everything else graphical I’m sure Scott Rossi has a better way ;-) Cheers Monte > On 15 Apr 2020, at 7:31 am,

Re: Keyhole effect?

2020-04-14 Thread Brian Milby via use-livecode
We had a discussion in 2018 about using a hex shaped grc to split up an image (started by Richmond). The key line there was: set the backPattern of grc "hex" to the ID of img "box" Since attachments and stacks were involved, I'm pretty sure it took place on the forums. I'm not sure if this