# Masking an image

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**Created:** [January 6, 2010, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-an-image/302724 "2010-01-06T15:33:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Navarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Navarone](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Navarone)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-an-image/302724/1 "2010-01-06T15:33:16Z")

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I need to know what would be the best approach to a project I am working on. It involves taking an image of a room (see attached) in fact there will be many rooms. The client needs the ability to change the color of the walls and wall base. Now the only way I know how of doing this is to map out each image creating sprites that overlay the walls and wall base. Then I would create a color picker and what ever color you pick, it would change the wall color.

However, this seems to be a awkward way of doing things and would be quite time consuming each time the client uploaded a new room. Is there another more practical way of doing this? I am using Flash CS3.

Thanks