# Masking help

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-help/124830
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [October 7, 2004, 4:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-help/124830 "2004-10-07T04:31:21Z")
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### Author: ![beneath\_the\_sky](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/beneath_the_sky/32/506_2.png) [@beneath\_the\_sky](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/beneath_the_sky)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2004, 4:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-help/124830/1 "2004-10-07T04:31:21Z")

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I’m trying to use this image as a loading bar but I want it to fill up only inside the circles and not in between. I probably need to mask it somehow, can anyone help me out in doing this? I have the code for the preloader already. Any help would be awesome, thanks 🙂