Kittl: MASKS FEATURE Explained

Inside another object so let’s jump in I’m going to go up here to new project on the right hand side and I’m going to get a few options here I’m just going to go up here to width and height and I’m going to make it 4500 by 5400 and that’s

The standard size of a merch by Amazon template I’m going to create it at 72 DPI I might change that later to 300 DPI if I want to download a high resolution illustration but for now I’ve got a good looking template here over on the left

Hand side what I’m going to do is go into elements and then from there you’re going to see a bunch of basic shapes and right underneath the basic shapes you’re going to see masks and there’s actually 204 different masks you can tell it’s a mask because it has a cloud and like a

Landscape on it so I’m just going to pick a design here at random a shape and this is now going to be my mask now there’s three different types of pictures and illustrations and Graphics you can put inside of a mask so the first one that we’re going to do is a

Vector so I’m going to go back to elements and I’m going to go into illustrations and from here I’m going to look for a vector design so here’s a great example Ocean Beach I’m going to put this picture here I’m going to make it bigger and now I’m going to make this

Inside of this all I’m doing is I’m going to drag it in I’m just dragging it over top of the mask and we can see now it assumes the shape now if I click it once I can move the whole thing around but if I click it double click it I can

Move the design inside the mask so I can make it bigger for example looks like a doorway now the other thing to remember too is you can change the colors inside of this as well you can change the group colors I’m going to click here I’m going

To change this maybe to purple or bright pink now you can double click it and then you can move the design inside the mask this also works for photographs as well well so I’m going to go here to masks and show all and I’m going to pick

A different style of design I’m going to pick a heart for example I’m going to make it nice and big put it right there that’s my mask shape now now I’m going to go down here to the bottom and I’m going to go to photos when I click on

Photos I’m going to scroll on down you can type in a search term as well if you want let’s do that I’m going to type in for example ocean and we can see here we’re going to get a whole bunch of different designs I’m going to populate

My design here with the ocean make it nice and big and again I’m just going to hover it over the mask and we can see just like that now my design is inside the heart shape I can move this around I can make this bigger and if you want to

Move inside the mask simply double click click click and now I can move it inside I can make the interior design larger or smaller and that would look great on a card a t-shirt what have you now if you want to change the way this looks you

Got to remember that it’s two things sitting inside of each other right so if you click on it once this is is the whole design and you’re going to see group colors over on the right but if you want to change the interior remember to double click you can see all of a

Sudden a whole palette of options opens up on the right hand side you can change object Shadows you could change the brightness of the Interior photo the contrast so you can really have some fun and make some cool already designs here simply by modifying the sliders there’s

Also a blending mode too for photos which is really nice so the blending mode if you go to say multiply that background color now comes into play so I’m going to go through this one more time when it’s normal you can’t see the background color okay so I’m going to

Click outside and I’m just going to click it once you can see there’s a group color here at the Top If I change this group color say to Blue okay you’re not going to notice it because it’s normal that’s the blending mode when you double click it you’re going to see

Normal come up but when I change this now to say multiply suddenly it turns it blue because it’s now looking through the mask and and it’s looking at the blue as like a filtery background kind of idea it filters right through it so I would encourage you to check out the

Blending modes there’s some really cool stuff you can do with this and you can have a lot of fun creating the third option is to use an illustration so I’m going to go here to elements I’m going to go to masks show all and let’s pick a

Really cool one here I’m going to pick the star for example gonna make it nice and big and now I’m going to go back into elements and I’m going to pick illustrations but instead of a vector I’m going to be looking for an actual illustration so I’m going to be using an

Illustration in this example I’m going to go here to vintage flowers and we can see there’s a whole bunch of different vintage flowers and I’m going to pick this flower here for example just going to move it off to the side and I want to point out the difference between an

Illustration and a vector I’ll make that clear here in a second I’m going to go back to the regular illustrations panel and I’m going to pick on this traditional tattoos you can see there this is a vector so on the right hand side the kitty cat is a vector I can

Change the object colors inside of it it pretty easily by simply moving the slider around but with the flowers you’ll notice it’s an illustration and there’s no option here to update the colors now you could go to your image vectorizer to vectorize the image I’m going to click on that and it basically

Makes a vector out of the image now I can change the object color and I could make it red or I could make it blue or green what have you so it’s not perfect because it’s the original illustration in multiple colors this is like a trace

Bitmap feature if you want to undo that just simply click control Z and Ctrl Z and you can just move backwards and eventually you’ll get back to the regular illustration there it is right there now to place it in The Mask I’m just going to make it nice and big I’m

Going to Simply hover over the mask feature and there it is it’s now inside the star again I can move the whole thing around or I can double click it to Simply move it inside and I could make it nice and big if you wanted to have

Some sort of a flower design like that for example I absolutely love Kittle there’s so many great graphical interfaces and templates there’s so many ways you can create and if you haven’t joined Kittle yet I highly recommend checking them out I’ve got a link in the video description below and just a heads

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