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
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