This is a short tute on making your own masks using corner/frame ding bat ttf's. I found the dingbats at   [ House of Lime ]
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These are the steps I used to make this  [ mask ]   1. I chose this ttf dingbat font [  Designer Corners  ] It has a %20 in the url, so I deleted that out and put a single space in the url with my space bar so that it would work. 2. I went to ImageMagick and entered a white  background gif in the 'front door' and resized it to 500x500! do NOT FORGET to add the exclamation point after the last number for proper re-sizing. 3. I chose the Annotate TAB and entered the capital letter H into the text box. (I had already made a test gif to find the dingbat I wanted to use at a different time) I then chose _black_ font color, used a point size of 384 and set the parameters at _North West_ and +0+100 (I think) each one will have to be determined for your self as you make it. I put the ding bat ttf in the slot and annotated the first corner on the NorthWest corner. 4. I then went to _Transform_ and chose _flop_ which reversed the gif, I then annotated the second corner on, leaving the parameters set at NorthWest 5. I then went back to _Transform_ and chose _flip_ which turned my gif upside down. I then went back to Annotate tab and put the 3rd corner on, leaving it at Northwest etc 6. I then went back to _Transform_ and chose _flop_ again, which reversed it, then Annotated the 4th corner on at Northwest. 7. I then went back to Transform and chose _trim_ which cut the excess white background off the 4 corners. 8. I then went to _Decorate_ and put a 10x10 black border on. 9. to use the mask, composite your picture in it using _Multiply_ composite. I also made a _frame mask_ using a frame dingbat font, this is a trickier thing to do, because I had to fill in some areas using the paint feature, black color, fuzz set at 20000 and Floodfill. here is the   mask   And here is the picture I made using it   Masked Image   Patty