Creating Your First Cut-Out

To make a cut-out, paint masks over your image to indicate which parts to keep and which part to remove. Fluid Mask uses three types of mask:

• Keep mask: indicates the part of the image to retain.
• Delete mask: indicates the part of the image to remove.
• Blend mask: indicates the border of the cut-out across which Fluid Mask will create a blended transition. 

To create a mask, you simply paint the image with the brush tools located on the Tool Palette. 

1. Paint keep masks using the green-colored tools.
2. Paint delete masks with the red colored tools.
3. Blend masks are normally applied automatically, but you can paint them yourself using the blue-colored tools.

Next: Painting Masks