Fireworks MX: Using Masking to Replace One Object with
Another Object
This is a technique I like to use a lot. There are just so
many possibilities with this technique. For example, I once did
some design work for a nutritional company where I took their
various health products such as herbal drinks, vitamin, and pill
bottles and using this same technique in Fireworks, masked the
products into a new image where people were at parties holding
beer bottles, cans, and other adult beverages. The premise was
the company's health products could make you just as euphoric as
your adult beverages.
Anyway, the masking effect came out well and this lesson is
an introduction to the technique.
Step 1: Getting Started
In this example, I am starting with an image of a person
holding a hammer and then I will replace the hammer with this
wrench.
I first removed the white background from the wrench. To view
a tutorial on removing the white background,
Step 2: Setting up the
Objects
- Place the wrench on top of the main image. You can do this
by placing the wrench on a new layer above the hammer layer or
you can simply place it above the hammer on the same layer.
-
Scale and Rotate (Q) the object so that it aligns up with
the hammer.
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