Hints and Tips

The most common ways to create a shape are as follows:

• The easiest way is to use a series of soft edge circles to build up a rough shape. This will probably be suitable for most simple purposes.
• Use the magic brush tool to trace an object on the background, then use blur to smooth the edges and fill in gaps.
• Isolate an area on the original picture using Mega2 colour isolation and use Mega2 colour correction to create a black and white shape of this image. Then grab this shape into Viewer using the grab button (you must be in single layer mode).
• Use an external drawing package (e.g. Photoshop) to create a mask and import this into Viewer. This is the best way to create complex shapes (e.g. beer bottles), and can also be used for creating textures. Save the external image as either a luminance or RGB TIFF image and copy it into /pogle/virtual on the SGI. It will then appear in the Black Hole Browser on Platinum. If you click on this while holding down the Shift key, it will be loaded into Viewer.