Two new articles on masks

[Paul Matthijsse]

Hello Alberto, I uploaded two new articles on the use of masks, including the brush mask now. Would you be so kind to have a look before I publish this link on pixls.us? Take your time…

Area masks

deltaE+brush

[agriggio]

that’s great, thanks a lot! I will read them over the weekend, I wasn’t planning to go anywhere anyway

[Paul Matthijsse]

Same story here. For a part of France, the Easter holidays start this weekend. We often go with friends a long weekend to the sea to celebrate the beginning of the good season, but not so this year. So I’m confined to work in the garden and to write!

[agriggio]

I think the articles are pretty good, thanks again!

Some minor feedback:

• brush masks were added in 1.2, not 1.1
• for area masks, maybe point out the difference between "feather" and "blur"? The difference being that feather is edge-aware, whereas blur is not
• for the brush mask in add mode, maybe mention that it can be used to edit any of the other masks, not just deltaE?

(btw, I've changed the order of columns in the summary tables of local corrections as discussed.)

[Paul Matthijsse]

Yes, I noticed the change of the columns, thanks!

I’ll add your remarks to the articles.

You said some time ago on pixls.us that your four local mask tools were capable of doing pretty much everything one can think of. After using some of them quite a lot the last two weeks, I am more and more convinced that you are right. The skin retouche on Marie is another good example. There are more articles to write on local masks, they are really great!