OLD DOGS NEW TRICKS HOMEWORK Masked Edges August 11, 2001 This ribbon awarded for my finished homework personally by MaggieA1. Thanks loads! I love it! I have just joined the PSPUG and signed up for classes that will start in September. So, I decided to try some of the class assignments from August to see how it worked. After considerable bumbling I managed to download and install mIRC. On Thurs. Aug. 9, I went to class and observed, and on Sat. was ready to follow the directions. These are the ones I did in class. If you would like to try this tutorial go here.

This was the original picture. This is the picture with a fade-away mask. This is the picture with a spiked mask. This is the picture with a spiked mask. But on this version I did not feather the mask. The spikes are a whole lot spikier! Also, I altered the original picture some before I started. I was not happy with that light edge on the left side of the picture. So I selected a portion of the original picture without the light part, then resized the result to the original height. This is the picture with a textured mask. On this picture I feathered my basic selection and then I used the GridMin Filter in the Filter Factory Gallery H with the following settings, Grid size set to 180 and Lightness set to 100. I am not quite happy with the positioning, but I can see that this could be used to advantage to highlight a small portion of the picture. I followed the tutorial instructions for a texured mask, choosing crumpled paper as my texture instead of twigs. I chose the Spiked mask that came in the PSP Edges folder for this one. Then I erased the area outside the spikes. I chose the Spiked mask that came in the PSP Edges folder for this one. This is what it looks like if you don't erase the outside edges. I chose the oval 5 mask that came in the PSP Edges folder for this one. Then I was just playing around with it. I started by opening a 400X400 pixel background color black. Then I added a new layer and placed my picture on it. The picture of my beautiful, talented, kind, thoughtful, wonderful daughter was rather tall and narrow. I resized the canvas to 400X450 and made it black also so there was a border all around the picture. Then I applied the floating squares mask to the picture. Then merged this all together. Opening a new window 400X450 I created a new mask following the tutorial for a textured mask using the Daze setting as the texture. After applying this to the picture I made a new background layer and floodfilled it with the color of my web pages.