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22 Working With Masks
This chapter describes how to select and modify existing masks and how
to exchange masks between ORIS PDF Tuner and Photoshop. For details
on how to create new masks refer to Creating Masks and Cut-outs
(page 21-1).
About Masks and Mask Files
Image masks can be used for creating...
• Cut-outs defining the image area to be placed on a layout (see also
page 21-1) – or
• Restricting masks defining the image area to which manipulations
such as gradation changes or color transformations will be applied
(see also page 22-13)
These masks are not stored in the image file itself, but in two separate
mask files. They reside in the same directory as the image and have the
same name and the file extension .MASKDAT and .MASKIDX.
Masks can also be created on a layout and are also stored in two separate
files (see page 22-14). They reside in the same directory as the layout,
have the same file name and the file extension .MASKDAT and
.MASKIDX (see page 32-7). Masks on a layout are created when
• painted and then filled with a tint, gradient, image or filter layer
• a cut-out is filled with a tint, gradient or image
Adobe Photoshop masks stored in EPS, TIFF and JPEG files can be
used like any other ORIS mask or explicitly copied to the ORIS mask
files. Having edited a Photoshop mask, you must first save it as a new
ORIS vector mask. To be able to used it in Photoshop you must copy it
back to the image file.
You can also define which vector mask should be used as a clipping path
in Photoshop.
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