Mask Magic, Add & Subtract With Gray

Digital Scrapper Tutorial | Layer Masks
Mask Magic, Add & Subtract With Gray
by Jen White

Use gray to subtract from a layer mask to make it fancy and selectively transparent.

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For this tutorial you will need:

  • A complex clipping mask (provided)
  • A png overlay (provided)
  • A solid, textured background paper (provided)
  • A photo (stock photo provided)

NOTE: The mask, overlays, and papers used in this tutorial are from Rise and Shine by Karen Schulz.

Want to see what others are creating with this tutorial? Go to Digital Scrapper’s Community Gallery.

 

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Watch the Video Tutorial:

Using paper and elements from Rise and Shine by Karen Schulz.
Using paper and elements from Prime of Life by Tiramisu Designs.
Page & Photos: Jen White
Tutorial: Mask Magic, Add & Subtract With Gray by Jen White
Kit: Prime of Life by Tiramisu Designs
Font: Caroni

 


More pages created using this tutorial:


Page: Christine Bishop, Photo: St. Joseph Beach Lighthouse
Kits: Vicki Robinson, KimB, Digilicious Designs, Karen Shultz, Digital Scrapper
Font: Palatino Linotype Italic

 

Page & Photos: Nanci Radford
Kit: Bellisae Designs
Fonts: Special Elite

 

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Comments (6)

  1. mmchap

    Thank you so much!

    January 14, 2025 at 7:56 pm Reply
  2. LeAnn Patterson

    I have a couple questions. Once the tutorial is downloaded, can it be downloaded again? Second question, I’ve downloaded to my computer for later viewing however, I would like to download it to my iPad or iPhone for repeated and leisure viewing. Would you be willing to provide instructions explaining how to download to an iPad and where it goes and how to view it? Plus how to delete it, for the sake of available space on my iPhone/iPad. Thank you.

    January 15, 2025 at 12:43 am Reply
    • Jen White

      LeAnn, in Marketplace, products are set with a limit of 5 downloads, but if you ever need more, just let me know. I believe that if you login to our website with your iPad, you can download the files and they will be stored in your iCloud. You could also add files to your iCloud from your computer, then they’d be accessible on your iPad. Hope this helps!

      January 15, 2025 at 7:45 am Reply
      • LeAnn Patterson

        Thank you I’ll give it a try.

        January 15, 2025 at 11:49 am Reply
  3. Diane Erickson

    Awesome! Thank you.

    January 18, 2025 at 4:41 pm Reply
  4. Frede Gien

    Thanks so much, very interesting.

    January 30, 2025 at 9:57 am Reply
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