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Great stuff! Your question and RoseCat's answer really helped me to "Aha" too!

Hey guys this is what I covered on this tutorial (Delta, the one I mentioned to you a while back). Hope this helps with the brushing on, masking off in Iris!

http://theappwhisperer.com/2012/03/...o-recreate-veevs-feed-us-pastel-styled-image/

Thanks Veevs, I am opening the tutorial now ... hope the boss stays away while I read it ...

Yes ! Between you and RC I think I have this masking in a practical place. Now, all I need to do is practice, practice, practice !!

You know there is AH HA and then there is this
6x6, Iris, Blender, and Shockmypic, Masking in Blender and Iris < seat dancing >
Thank you, Vees,RC, Mel, Lisa...I have harassed you to death but I think, it has all clicked !
And of course The App Whisperer for the tutorials of these magnificent iphonographers.
Ok so here it is


" star crossed"

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I have to agree wholeheartedly with RoseCat ... that is absolutely stunning Delta! and

Thank you ! I am most pleased that Masking makes sense now..all the rest falls into place after that...not to mention that while I find spending hours in Juxta erasing backgrounds ( it can be soothing..) the ability to do something ELSE makes me

Thank You... on my way ...

Now for the newbie question from me ... please could you tell me what kind of masking you did in Blender and Iris?
I am also very new to masking and blending so any and all assistance I can get would be fantastic.
Thanks in advance.

Ok...this is the hard part ! The student becomes the teacher... Let me see if I can explain..( if you can explain it - you can do it )

First let me say that I blended many, many times !!!

Here goes :

1. So, after I ran the photo through perfectly clear and saved it. I decided that I needed to crop the photo which I did in Iris - ( A ) then saved it. That is the photo I worked from.
2. Then, I ran the photo through Shock my pic ( B) and saved.
3. Then blended A + B to reduce the shock effect and (C) saved.
4. Then I used (C) back in Iris ( note: Filterstorm was crashing something fierce so I went with Iris) and drew a mask on the background ( the area that I wanted to make changes to) which created an Image Mask.
5. Once I found a filter I liked - I applied it using the Image Mask which I had created before and (D) saved.

Note: This was critical that I learned in Iris. I had to create the Image Mask FIRST before I did any applying of Filters. They give you several options but...if you are trying to change say the background you have to create an Image Mask. ( I think that is correct )

6. Then I went back to Blender and blended C + D and saved.
7. From there I tweaked until I had a photo I liked but always using the masked image when applying filter changes and frame in Iris ( E ) and saved.
8. For a final run I went back to blender again. This time, I drew a Mask on the background of ( A) and then blended it with ( E ) so I could have the flower pop of little more since ( A ) was the original.

And that was it ! Don't ask me what filters I used... once I realized that it was working...my muse took over - don't know what she used..but it worked !!

Masking, Layering, Erasing Masks, Inverted Masks...are the techniques I think that can free you to do your art and help you with the compositions that you see in your " minds eye " of a photo.

Hope this helped..

Wow, thanks for the tutorial. It will help me plenty. After a good nights sleep I shall be rereading this post and try to put it into practice.

Well done Delta, this is lovely! Glad it has all clicked for you