Digital Light & Color

Thank you for your help. The shift-click was necessary to be able to select the cloning point and see the cloning circle. This didn't occur to me. Is there any way to eliminate this need, or to trigger the appearance of a hint (like displaying a window saying to shift click if I've fruitlessly click...

Your protocol works fine if the mask is created from within the Clone Transformation. For me, a similar series of steps, but attempting to use a preexisting mask does not work.

It seems like I should be able to create a mask for an image, then choose the clone transformation, then select the mask to control the amount of cloning, and then proceed to select the source point in the image (cloning from and to the same image) and the target point. However, I am not able to sel...

I like the backgrounds of my flower images to be highly blurred. Precise Gaussian is fine for this except that it runs very slowly. The following seems to be an effective blurring procedure that, for my images, is about five times faster than Precise Gaussian. Feather a mask of the flower with a rad...

Thank you for the additional information.

It would be nice if the software could be engineered so that the process were straightworward and the necessary menu necessary choices were obvious.

After some playing around, I have learned one way of combining two masks. What I did not appreciate is that the two masks to be combined using the output of the Mask transformation must be mask 1 and mask 2 in that Masks transformation. I also did not appreciate the fact that the B&W image produ...

Thank you for your response. Part of my difficulty seems to be that saving a mask doesn't seem to work. If I have created two masks, reopen the first for editing, and then select "Save current mask", then open the transformation in which the second mask was created, I get the message "...

I am having difficulty combining two masks. The Mask transformation dialog box allows the operation Mask 1 + Mask 2, and this produces an image of the combination in the right hand image area. I have been unable to find a way to use this combination as a mask however. Alas, the documentation doesn't...

Looks like the lesson is "Don't delete branches."