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It would be very difficult to
select the coffee cup. Instead
we used a mask to do it.

Using a mask for the border of an image. This
is of photo of my Charlie after surgery to
remove 4 tumors. He has the T-shirt on to keep
him from going after the stitches. Poor baby!

Here's Clyde sporting a frame I made by using Spiky Halo to create a mask.

Using a shape to make a mask.

Created a mask from a gradient and then used it to allow
fading of two images into one.