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SkinStudio6 - What is 'Colouring masks'?
Published on March 16, 2008 By
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There is an option in SkinStudio6 - 'Colouring masks'
Could somebody put this option into context for me please, how is intended that it is used?
Is there a WB that is known to make use of this option - if so, which?
Thanks for any help.
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Alternate Setting
on Mar 17, 2008
2
Xiandi
on Mar 17, 2008
BUMP.....I would like to know the answer to this too!
3
Xiandi
on Mar 19, 2008
Hmmm...It seems like nobody can answer this.
4
2of3
on Mar 19, 2008
Try it out and see what happens...... come on I dare ya!
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eieio
on Mar 19, 2008
This is from an old guide, but it explains masks:
WindowBlinds 2.0 allows users to change the color of skins. A skin author, however, may not want the entire skin's color changed. Instead, they may only want certain aspects of a skin changed. For instance, you might want your blue title bar to be able to be colored but not have your tray border. So how do you do this?
The answer is you create a mask image. A mask image is typically a grayscale image in which white areas are areas you want the colors changed and black areas being ones you don't want changed (with intermediate colors being in between). If you are an expert on colors, you can get fancier and supply a 24bit mask image and come up with some really strange blendings (for instance, if you want only the the reds blended into your skins of a chosen color, you would supply an image with a color mask of 255,0,0
). We only recommend that for die hards. A gray scale image is the most intuitive way of creating a mask in this instance.
To create a mask, you simply take one of your existing bitmaps, turn it to a grayscale and make the areas you want changeable white and those you don't want changed black.
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vStyler
on Mar 19, 2008
Isn't it a mask u wear when coloring something? I could be wrong
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Xiandi
on Mar 19, 2008
Thank you, Pic.
Now that I know what it is...maybe I can make something to use it on!
8
Alternate Setting
on Mar 20, 2008
Cheers pictoratus.
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