Complex Masking question

Hello,
This may be rather difficult to explain but, I'll do my best. ( I have attached an image to better help explain my challenge)
I am trying to make a 3d hologram effect, I have ran into an issue with my masks. I am trying to create a shape, that appears to be on top of another shape, but still retain the transparency and the illusion that a mask is hiding the element below it. When I animate the shapes, I would like the mask to continue to mask the shape below it.The problem that I am runnung into is that I can't seem to retain the proper masking of my shapes when I animate the objects.
Below is an image of the desired effect I would like to achieve.
I think need a little bit of help setting up a mask for this effect.
Thanks in advance guys!

The conundrum can be solved withe the use of a track matte. Make a cicle shape or circle wipe on a solid. Scale it to match the size of the existing circle, and parent it to the existing circle.. Use it as an Alpha Matte for the square. It needs to be on the layer directly above the square.

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Complex mask renders look blocky in the feather region

Has anyone ever had a multi point mask that just renders a pattern in the feather region? It doesn't happen on simple masks with less than 6 points or so. This footage was originally edited in Premiere and then sent to Speedgrade. This is a recurring issue on this system. Also, in this case Speedgrade crashed almost immediately after I took this shot.
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I direct link Speedgrade from Premiere, apply masks but never seen that abnormality in your feather region. However, for my complex masks I strickly use Speedgrade in ircp projects. I was trying to duplicate your abnormality and did not succeed. I even saved the complex masks from the ircp and applied as lumetri in a prproj direct link to Speedgrade (which I don't recommend with respect to proper workflow - my test).
I did get abnormalities with lumetri in Premiere when I used the masks in Premiere - as in the ellipse mask or maybe it was the free draw bezier to mask the Speedgrade lumetr. I added some points and feathered out - did not like the abnormalities in the feather region and trashed the idea.
I do add an adjustment layers in Premiere which I add my lumetri to in Speedgrade.
In Speedgrade ircp projects, my current sample has 4 layers, 3 of those layers are masks, where the masks have between 20 to 40 points and double that for feathering. My Speedgrade crashes constantly while building masks and I am forced to save constantly. If I move to fast in Speedgrade the result is 'crash'. Sometimes I stop to admire the work Speedgrade does and then move for the save button and 'crash'.
My point is - I have never seen that abnormality in my Speedgrade projects. I did think I saw it in my current sample, but it was a tiny spot. It was a beach line, where my two masks met and the feather region overlapped - and the tiny spot was a sun-faded dead stump on the shore line - seeming to be over-exposed and Speedgrade trying to tell me I was stripping pixels seemed to be. That sample no longer exists , as I reversed the one mask and worked at things from a different direction.
I have no problems with Speedgrade - I love what Speedgrade does to adding, enhancing, changing color,,,,,

Layer Mask Question

Hi everyone, this is my first time posting, sorry. I am new
to Flash, but I've got a general knowledge of it to help me discuss
this question.
I am trying to build a site that has a homepage with some
images on it. The basic format of the site is broken into a grid.
It is 5x9. It is basically a graphic over the top of the
background. From this home page there are 3 buttons at the bottom.
What I want to happen is when one of the buttons is clicked the
homepage background image, or whatever is in the background, stays
there and the information that the button is calling up to dissolve
one square at a time, or in a combination, to give a nice
dissolve/transition to the next set of information.
What I've tried doing:
I started another scene, which is the contents of the page
after the first button is pressed. My layer stack from bottom to
top is, a copy of the background image and grid from the homepage,
then a new layer that is masked. On the layer is an image with all
the information I want to show after the wipe. So on the mask layer
I have 45 boxes. Each box is set to a zero alpha. As the keyframes
go thru the time line certain sets of boxes are put up to 100%
alpha, and have a white color. But what I'm getting is the
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masked layer in below. There is no dissolve or anything.
This is probably the wrong way to attack this problem but
with my limited knowledge it is the only thing I could think of.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I could achieve this effect?
Thank you!

Yes, as Michael pointed it to you, you are seeing your edit below the arm layer, and Photoshop processes layer from top to bottom.
See these documents:
http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=426625
http://www.photoshopcafe.com/tutorials/layers/intro.htm
See also all these Key concepts: http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/keyconcepts/articles/concept_index.html

Matte/mask question - very basic

Really dumb question- I have never fully understood the terminology, though I know conceptually what I want to do. I want to create an image matte I believe. An example would be - I have a photograph of a television set. I have made the entire screen (slightly oval) all pure black. I wish to have a layer (video) underneath it snow up, but only through this layer of black, so the image is cropped around the edge of the round-ish screen (it's an old TV). How do I do this? I'm always confused at all the composite modes - matte, mask, add, yada yada.
I know this is very basic, so I'm looking for some guidance on how to accomplish this so I know the terminology and the basics.
Thanks

qft.
Nothing wrong with that either !
In the interests of science and bad family entainment (which I know Mike likes to inflict on relatives. Sorry Mike, had to throw that in, still get a laugh when I think about that post) ... there is more than one way to skin the cat
Mike - if you wanted to use a matte and not a mask then you'll want to composite the image you want to use in the screen part of the tv using that part of the tv.
You'll want the "black" portion of your screen to be white. Then you'd use on another layer above that white "matte" the image or layer of video you want to appear.
So you'd have your tv box on one layer- then your white screen on anther layer - then an image/video above using Travel Matte Luma from the composite mode.
It's quick - but offers less cntrol, imo.
I like masks - personal preference only, tho'

Forwarding / Masking Question

So ive searched the forums here and I've found a bunch of answers to most of my questions... however I'm still having an issue with my website masking.
I built a site for my mothers store http://walnutandvine.com
However when you go to the site it shows my mac address.
I bought the domain through godaddy... and under the forwarding section I enabled Masking and set my Masking Title to www.walnutandvine.com
I also setup some Masking Meta Tags and keyword tags.
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong... any help would be great.
I also have the site setup through zoneedit.com not sure if that tidbit of info helps.
Oh and under Forwarding what is 301 Moved Permanetly and 302 Moved Temporarily?
Thanks again

Forwarding tells the domain what url to display.
I believe what you are need to look at is "cname"
You should be able to find related posts.
Also there is information here:
[http://alyeska.altervista.org/en/iWeb_FAQ.html]
With godaddy you can do it yourself in your account area.
They also have good support.
Actually the above url has a specific reference to godaddy setup.
good luck
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Bonehead layer mask question: CS5

I am new to photoshop.
I am running PS CS5 on a Macbook Pro.
I have a document with two layers.
The top layer is a black & white adjustment layer with mask.
Opacity is set to 50%
The bottom layer is a colored background layer.
I don't know what the little square is called at the lower left of screen.
The background part is set to white and the foreground part is set to black.
When I select a brush and try to reveal some of the colored elements below nothing happens.
Do I need to activate any other settings to make this happen?

Good advice above, but one more thing (sorry for a very basic question): Have you targeted the mask? You have to click on it before you can paint on it.
Just reviewing... With your Opacity at 50% your image will still have some color, and painting black on the layer mask will hide the effects of the Black & White layer and reveal more color.
If you're still having trouble, please capture your entire screen, save as a JPEG, and post it here using the little "camera" icon just above the edit box. Usually people can home right in on what's wrong by seeing the various Photoshop indicators on the screen.
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Excel for iOS data masking question..

Hey guys, the contracts I use for my biz require me to have fields masked (when typing in a customer's credit card info) - I had special excel agreements built and had to give up my iPad and
go out and buy a thinkpad tablet.
I'm really curious though and wondering if someone can tell me whether data masking is supported yet within excel for ios. I realize macros are not...Any help would be much appreciated..Thanks

This is the Power View forum.
Try asking here:
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Clipping mask question 2.

Hello, so about a week ago I was having some trouble with my clipping mask I had posted a question Here about it. Over the week I believe i see what the problem maybe but i do not know how to fix it (once again) This is what I mean:
As you can see in the image above, there are little pixels around the image after i finished coloring and erasing my mess. (i used a wacom tablet to do this by the way.)
In this image I created a clipping mask over the image above and i began "shading." But the color went over once again. I Believe it has something to do with those little pixels.
May someone please help me by telling me why those little pixels are There and how i can get rid of them. Also If you have an idea at why the mask is not working also let me know as well

I suspect you are flat out going about things in the wrong way. I can't see reason you'd need or want to clip layers to achieve what you are doing. The spill is probably anti-aliasing from the brush or erasor. Niether tend to achieve 100% coverage with one pass.
Rather an use the erasor, much better to make a selection and add a layer mask. This will produce a hard edged editable layer.
Try drawing your lines on a roughing out layer, and then colouring on an underlying layer using different layers for each colour. When done, Ctrl (Cmd) click the colour fill layer which will load its outline as a selection. You can then go Edit > Stroke with black on a new layer higher up the stack.

Feathered selection, transparency, mask question

1) On a transparent canvas, fill a feathered selection at 100% opacity.
2) Cmd-click layer icon to load the selection (of the pixels).
3) Add its Layer Mask.
When I Enable/Disable the Layer Mask, the pixels change (the border changes).
This does not happen when a similar selection is made on a non-transparent canvas.
What is going on with the transparency and the Mask that I am missing? That is, why does Mask change the image?
Thanks,
Sonny
OS 10.5.8, PSCS4

Hi Sonny
Michael has some good insight into this.
No matter what, these topics are definitely hard to grasp and I too have struggled with how does all the transparency, selections, layer masks, alpha channels all work together (or not) and the differences between all these names and their function. My experience is how learning works for one person may do nothing for another. Thought I would give it a shot based on my understanding. Sorry if this is wordy yet you ask very good and tough questions.
First for the Transparency/Opacity
When you create a feathered selection and fill it over a transparent background you effectively have created a transparency mask for that layer right within the artwork. The fuzzy edge is the transition from full 100% opacity (transparency = 0) within the red square to 0% opacity outside the square (transparency=100%). This defines one of the two transparency masks that each level can have. The transparency mask does not get a lot of press because a thumbnail for it does not show up anywhere. The second mask is the Layer Mask. The total opacity is determined by multiplying the Layer Mask with the Transparency Mask (ignoring the opacity/fill sliders and Blending Options). The effective total opacity for the layer is seen as familiar checkerboard pattern.
When you pressed CMD (Ctrl on PC) and clicked the artwork thumbnail, you pulled up the transparency mask up as a selection (I'll talk about the marching ants and the hard edge it portrays later on). By copying this selection into the Layer Mask you now have effectively double masked your artwork (Layer Mask X Transparency Mask). The transparency mask still sits within the artwork and is now duplicated as a Layer Mask. This will make the total mask look like it has shrunk. Why?.... Right in the middle of the transition edge of either mask you will have 50% opacity. When you double up on the masks that same point will now have 50% x 50% = 25% opacity. The bottom line is the the opacity edge will go through a steeper and faster transition when you have this doubling up of masks.
If that is not what you want there are several ways to avoid this
1) Just don't use a layer mask since the red object is already created with a smooth transparent edge within a transparent field (why do you want the layer mask?)
2) Create the initial selection with a hard edge, move it into a layer mask, select it and then Select>Refine Edge for the Layer Mask to create a smooth transition.
Either way you won't double up on the masks.
Selection Mask
The selection mask is its own beast and not associated with any particular layer. Think of it as a mask that hovers over the entire layer stack and that it can be applied to whichever layer is active (highlighted). The selection mask with its marching ants gives the impression that it has a hard edge. This is misleading because anytime you have any feathering you are creating a mask with a gradual transition or a mask that on the edges has partial opacity/transparency. Almost all the selection tools have the ability to do feathering.
Unfortunately tyring to represent the mask edge is problematic when it is not a sharp transition. The marching ants just represents the point in the feathering where the partial transparency of the selection =50%. When you have no feathering the edge is sharp and the marching ants are exactly right on top of that edge. Other than that, the marching ants are somewhere in the middle of the edge transistion.
Clear as mud right?
Hope that helps
John Wheeler

Animated mask question.

When i try to test a simple animated mask using test movie command, it looks like my animation stops on frame 1. Anyone seen this before?
Thanks, Mike

Thank you for all the input. I think I may have stumbled onto the the problem. For some reason, if I use a merge object for my mask object everything works fine. I was using multiple drawing objects for the mask. Apparently that's not allowed.
Thanks to all of you who gave my problem some thought.
Mike

External Phone Number Mask Question

We have several phones with NonDID number on them. Our route pattern is setup to use an external phone number mask of the sites main number (1112223333). However on two of the phones, we would like to have a different number displayed (1112224444). We have tried to do this by entering this number (1112224444) into the extranal phone number mask of the DN on the 2 phone. This did not work, the main number (1112223333) is still being displayed (caller ID).
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So I define the connection pool JDBC resource in the conf/server.xml file under the <GlobalNamingResources> element.
Here is the entire <GlobalNamingResources> element lifted from conf/server.xml:
(Please overlook some of the formatting mistakes due to the <code> tag interpreting the xml as java.)

<GlobalNamingResources>
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        </parameter>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
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<description>MySQL Test App</description>
<resource-ref>
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$CATALINA_HOME/conf/[engine_name]/[host_name]/DBTest.xml
$CATALINA_HOME/webapps/DBTest/META-INF/context.xmlSince I would eventually like to package each webapp in its own war file, I prefer the second option above. This will enable me to place the context.xml file within the .war file. Currently, however, I am not using .war files.
For the DBTest webapp I have the following <context> element in webapps/DBTest/META-INF/context.xml:
<context path="/DBTest" docBase="/DBTest" debug="1">
    <ResourceLink global="jdbc/MySQL" name="jdbc/MySQL" type="javax.sql.DataSource" />
</context>Now, when I point my browser to http://localhost:8080/DBTest/test.jsp I get the following message:
javax.servlet.ServletException: Unable to get connection, DataSource invalid: "org.apache.commons.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot create JDBC driver of class '' for connect URL 'null', cause: No suitable driver"
For those who are interested, here is test.jsp:
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/sql" prefix="sql" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<sql:query var="rs" dataSource="jdbc/MySQL">
select id, foo, bar from javatest.testdata
</sql:query>
<html>
<head>
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</head>
<body>
<h2>Results</h2>
<c:forEach var="row" items="${rs.rows}">
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    Bar ${row.bar}<br/>
</c:forEach>
</body>
</html>Now I know that this is a very long and detailed question and that it is unlikely that anyone is even going to read down this far, let alone take the time to study all that XML, but if anyone is able to tell me why this setup does not allow global connection pooling, I will be pretty *@&$**% impressed. I only wish I had duke dollars to give.
Jon

Okay, I went back and double checked that I can get the DBTest example working. It is described here: http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/jndi-datasource-examples-howto.html
I was not able to get it working exactly according to the tutorial, though. I was required to put the <context> element not in the conf/server.xml but in conf/Catalina/localhost/DBTest.xml. Then, with the DBTest/WEB-INF/web.xml as above, I was able to get the DBTest example working. The output of test.jsp (described above also) is the following:
Results
Foo hello
Bar 12345I would like to be able to put the <context> element in webapps/DBTest/META-INF/context.xml (as I think should be allowed) because then I would be able to include it in a war file that encompassed the entire web application. If I am forced to put the <context> element in a subdirectory of the conf directory, then I cannot include it in a war file and I will be unable to just drop my war files in the webapps directory and go. Instead I will have to drop my war files in the webapps directory, then go and fiddle around with the xml files in conf/Catalina/localhost/
But if I move the <context> element into webapps/DBTest/META-INF/context.xml then the example stops working. When I put it back in conf/Catalina/localhost/DBTest.xml everything is fine again.
Ok, no big deal. I guess my war file deployment will just have to be a little more complicated.
But what if I want the resource to be global??? If I remove the <Resource> and <ResourceParams> elements from the webapp-specific <context> element and put them in the <GlobalNamingResource> element in the conf/server.xml file I should have a global resource, right? I did this, then added a resource link to the <context> element (see above), however, the example stops working. I have tried both with and without the <resource-ref> element in web.xml.
Can some remarkably intelligent and knowledgeable person please explain to me how global resources work in tomcat 5.0, especially global JDBC connection pooling.
Thanks,
Jon

Really, Really, REALLY complex Tween Question

Ok, this is the BIG one: I have a motion tween, moving a single graphic forward & backward on an even plane, comprised of six keyframes. I built this animation about a year ago. Now I want to add a keyframe thirty frames after the last keyframe in the timeline for this tween, and I want to position the graphic being animated so that on that last keyframe, it is positioned off the screen to the right. So I put in my new keyframe, put the playhead on that keyframe, then click & drag the symbol off to the right of the stage. That should do it, right? All the other keyframes should be holding their positions with the symbol where it was before on those keyframes, right. But they aren't. They've all moved proportionately to the position of the new keyframe I put in, thirty frames farther along the timeline. I've been pulling my hair out for 45 minutes, trying everything available in this interface (yes, including the roving keyframes toggle), and CANNOT find whatever it takes to have those earlier keyframes hold the symbol in the previous positions when I try and add another animation segment to the path.
Seems like having the symbols stay in position with previous keyframes would be the default, doesn't it? Any ideas on how to add a new keyframe, move the symbol on the stage to a new position on that new keyframe, and have all the other keyframes hold their positions?
Pretty complex, huh? Shouldn't be, should it?
Thanks.
Cayce

I have no experience with them, but what you describe wanting would work with the Classic version.
If you don't want to switch to them, then you could always have a new layer for the new sequence so that you can be sure the other is not going to influence it.

Hi All, ready for a quick mask question from a newbie ;-) ?

When I make a quick mask selection, it becomas "red-ish" as it suppose to. When I leave quick mask mode however, the painted area does not become a visible (yes I checked the correct option dialogue box, I guess, according to a friend) selected area though. But when I make any adjustment, eg color saturation, it only affects the area I selected in the quick mask mode, which I cannot see except for the adjustment. How on earth did I manage to make this happen. What have I done wrong or haven't done at all? You kind attention and quick reply is highly appreciated. Best /Stefan

Thanks a lot, Sir, much appreciated. Under View options one can selected "show selection outlines or boundaries", well not in swedish, it says something completely different, but just as you said, there it was!
Again, thanks a lot!

Blending with a layer mask question

In CS5, I make a selection and copy it to a new layer and use the bloat tool to manipulate the layer, I then select the new layer mask with this new bloated layer and use the brush tool with the airbrush turned on to blend in this new layer with the original layer.
However, I am just not sure I understand what this is doing.
1. How is using the layer mask to blend it in different from just using ther eraser tool to erase parts of it?
Thanks.

I don't get the impression you fully understand the concept of the layer mask. Using a brush on the layer mask does nothing to the layer itself. Think of it like a window through which you see the layer. Paint part of the window black and you can't see the layer underneath. Scrape the paint off, and voila. You now see again what was there.

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