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Move and copy layer masks - GIMP Tutorial
From the course: GIMP Essential Training
Move and copy layer masks
- [Instructor] Once you've made a layer mask in GIMP, it's easy to copy that mask to another layer of the same document. And you can also copy masks, without too much difficulty, to a layer in a different document. So, let's see how to do those things. In our first exercise file for this movie, we have similar icons on different layers. The icon on the top layer is masked by a layer mask to give it rounded corners and the one beneath has sharp corners and no mask. If I want to make a copy of the mask to apply to the other layer, I can click on the mask and choose layer, mask, mask to selection. This makes an active selection based on the mask. With that selection still active, I'll hide the layer with the mask, show and select the layer where I want to put the copy of the mask and then choose layer, mask, add layer mask. And in the dialogue box, I'll choose to initialize the layer mask to the selection. In effect, I'm just reversing the process I did on the other layer, where I made…
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