# Help, masking problem! **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [February 5, 2003, 6:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-masking-problem/12836 "2003-02-05T06:11:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Dave](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Dave)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 6:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-masking-problem/12836/1 "2003-02-05T06:11:50Z")
Hey guys!! I have followed the tut on this masking thing, i get it working with text, but with images, i cant get it to work!! I have attached some files here for you to look at, hope this thing is possible…im sure it is, just can get it!!! :bounce: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 6:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-masking-problem/12836/2 "2003-02-05T06:15:39Z")
What exactly is the problem. Works fine for me from what I can tell. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 6:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-masking-problem/12836/3 "2003-02-05T06:18:24Z")
sorry 4got to explain!! yeah i can get the mask to go through the arcs!! the outside bit, it only goes through the face!! :run: ( i like these new faces!! ) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 6:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-masking-problem/12836/4 "2003-02-05T06:21:00Z")
Oh yeah, I see the problem now. Weird, I will try and see what I can come up with, but I am not guaranteeing anything. Eilsoe makes most of the smilies, but I know guig0 did a few that are new here too. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 6:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-masking-problem/12836/5 "2003-02-05T06:23:34Z")
Ok, the problem is that you have too many objects masking. Notice if you delete the main face part, it goes to the silver mouth part, and if you delete that, it just masks the black part of the right eye. You can only use one mask per item. So in this case I recommend maybe exporting your image as a transparent .gif from Photoshop or something then trying it that way. If not, better get to working that line tool and tracing your image shape :-\ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 6:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-masking-problem/12836/6 "2003-02-05T06:41:49Z")
yeah i did the transparent png, but it still doesnt work!! trace the whole thing u mean?? :sigh: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 6:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-masking-problem/12836/7 "2003-02-05T06:43:00Z")
Yeah, trace the basic shape and fill it in so your whole object can be one shape instead of multiple clips grouped together. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 6:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-masking-problem/12836/8 "2003-02-05T06:48:26Z")
sounds like a lot of work man!! :bounce: ■■■■! :bad: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 6:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-masking-problem/12836/9 "2003-02-05T06:50:41Z")
Shouldn’t be too difficult if you use the line tool. You can draw the line and use the curve feature (if you put your mouse right next to your line) to curve it where you want it. Like in the line art tutorial… [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/lineart.asp](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/lineart.asp) But your shape is more simple. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 6:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-masking-problem/12836/10 "2003-02-05T06:52:23Z")
k thanks LoB, ill check it out =) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 7:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-masking-problem/12836/11 "2003-02-05T07:43:32Z")
here ya go, fixed the problem ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 7:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-masking-problem/12836/12 "2003-02-05T07:54:19Z")
ok , here is a better one of it. edit:: before i just broke apart your graphics but you lost alot of detail. On this one, i assigned another mask to the curves. hope it what you want 😉 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 11:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-masking-problem/12836/13 "2003-02-07T11:59:45Z")
better be a better one!! :run: