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Masking images

Masking images is an essential feature of pagestrip: You might often find that you do not want to use the entire image in your publication, but only a certain area of it. This is what masking enables you to do.

To enter image masking mode, either double-click an image box to which an image is assigned or click the “Edit Mask” button in the inspector.

Drag an image to the stage Double-click the image or click "Edit Mask" to enter image masking mode.

In image masking mode, dragging the transform handles of the image box will not resize the box, but rather change the visible area of the image. You can also grab the visible part of the image to drag it around.

Additionally, you can use the floating window to scale the image either up or down (you can also edit the scale percentage label directly if you want an exact scale value), hit “Reset” to revert to the previous masking or hit “Apply Mask” to exit image masking mode.

Alternatively, you can exit image masking mode by clicking on empty space in the canvas. Pressing “Escape” will also exit the mode, but cancels the changes you have made.

Drag an image to the stage Use the drag handles to change the image mask. You can drag the visible part of the image to move it around. Scale the image by using the slider or typing directly into the percentage field. Click outside the visible image area to exit image masking mode and apply your mask.

After applying a mask, the image box will now only show the part of the image that you have selected.

An image visible on the stage

However, be aware that you can change the mask again at any time — pagestrip will not really crop your image destructively, but keep the original image around at all times.

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