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This tutorial discusses the
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use of masks within images or clip arts
within your MegaEdit canvas.
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Masks allow you to apply
custom shapes to your imagery
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by applying an overlay
which acts as an image outlined.
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So I'm starting off on my MegaEdit product
screen in the admin area of Infigo.
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And then the first thing we actually need
to do is to create our mask categories.
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So the same as we've seen
with other MegaEdit resources,
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we create them
independently from products.
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We create a category
and then we can assign the category
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and its contents to a particular product
or multiple products
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if necessary.
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So either from the list on the left
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hand side or the little dropdown
list on the top right.
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I'm going to go to General Data.
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The second tab along within
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the general data
tab is the mask categories.
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And you can see I've got
a couple of examples already set up.
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All we need to do is say add new record,
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put in a couple of details.
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We can make it.
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So these masks are administration
only if necessary.
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So if you don't want customers
to be able to access these masks,
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you can make the category admin only.
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So that's useful
if you are just setting up templates
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and those templates
are not going to be adjustable by the end.
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Users
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click insert
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and then hit configure and now
we need to upload some associated files.
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So JPEG, PNG or PDF format.
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So I have a folder here
which shows a few examples of usable masks
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and this is all you really need.
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So if I open up
one of those as an example,
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all you need is a
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contrasting image with black and white.
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When these are uploaded
into your mask category
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and used in conjunction with an image
field or a clip art, on your MegaEdit
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canvas, the image will show through
in the white area
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and the black area
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will be made transparent.
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So if I just upload a few of those masks,
you'll see those are being uploaded. Now,
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once the upload has been successful,
you'll see small thumbnails of them
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at the bottom of the screen, if any have
failed, you'll get some messages
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informing you that they failed,
and that is our mask category created.
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informing you that they failed,
and that is our mask category created.
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Now we need to apply to use that category
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on the products of interest to us.
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So if I go to our MegaEdit resource links
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and back to our product section, identify
one of the MegaEdit products
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that you want to utilize the mask on
and go to edit on the right hand side
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as part
of the tabs across the top of the screen,
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you have masks about halfway across
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where you get all the mask categories
and you can assign one of those categories
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or multiple if you wish to do so.
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From here,
I'm going to launch that MegaEdit product.
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So the first thing we need to do
is make sure that we have either an image
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field or a clip heart on our canvas.
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So I've got a few clip thoughts
that have been uploaded here.
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So if I just pick one of those
as an example
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Okay.
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So what we need to do
now is to apply one of our masks
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to this particular image.
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So this is done
by opening up the pop up window.
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And then you'll notice
that we have a new tab available
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which wasn't there
previously in our previous tutorials.
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So this heart-shaped black
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icon here is for masks
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and you'll see that you have a
no mask option to remove any
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that have been applied.
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Or you can select
between all of the uploaded masks
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and it's
just a case of clicking between them
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and it will apply it
to your specified image or clip frame.
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So for example, it will stretch the mask
to fit the shape of the frame
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so they can see, for example,
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that we have our image
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showing through
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where the actual mask was white.
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So let me just avoid the actual mask
itself.
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So however,
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the black area in the actual
mask is now transparent.
