![]() I can turn off the beach there and it is just a hole that I have created in the star field. So I'm basically removing this part of the star field so that it reveals what is underneath. So I could say you know create a little beach like space here that is shown. So I'm going to go and paint there and as I paint black look in there you can see the little black squiggle there I'm actually revealing part of the beach here. So if I want actually remove part of this I would simply paint it but using a color say like black would be the easiest to visualize. It's all white meaning the entire thing is filled with color so it is going to show everything that is here. You've got the image itself and you've got the mask area for that particular layer. So a layer mask actually splits the little image up here into two parts. I'm going to Control click on this layer here and I've got the contextual menu. I'm going to create another type of mask. Now we just got back to the two layers just by using Command Z a bunch of times. Now let's undo a bunch here and get back to before we applied the clipping mask. So after I'm done with the Fill there you can see that I've got the sky now replacing the original blue sky that was there in the background. Then I'm going to use Option Command F which is for Fill right there. I'm not going to get it just perfect right now but you get the general idea. I'll use this blind selection tool here and I will create an area in this layer that kind of follows where the sky would be. Let me actually I'll use a selection tool. So I can actually select in here and delete and instead draw in part of the sky back there. So if I turn the beach layer back on you can see it appears there and I'm kind of punching holes through the beach layers. 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. Check out MacMost Now 788: Pixelmator Layers and Masks at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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