NONA-MASK(1)

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version 0.29 · 2 versions
, in fedora 43

✨ NONA-MASK ✨

bestie. sit down. we're talking about nona-mask — it's literally just a wrapper around nona for managing external masks 💅 and honestly? she's giving personal assistant energy. you bring the pics, she brings the masks, everybody eats.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

nona-mask [options] -o output project_file (image files)

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. ✨

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so. nona-mask is a wrapper around nona, right? and the usage is exactly the same as for nona — like, not one single thing different — EXCEPT for one lil' magic trick: if files named <prefix>_mask.tif exist, they get inserted as alpha masks before stitching. no cap. she just does it. 🦋

some examples of valid image pairs, for the visual learners in the chat:

DSC_1234.tif DSC_1234_mask.tif
IMG_5678.JPG IMG_5678_mask.tif

see the pattern? the mask just matches the name with _mask.tif glued on. iconic behaviour honestly. 🫶

⚠️ heads up bestie: masks can be any bit depth, but they must have no alpha channel. that's non-negotiable, fr fr. and the colour coding? black indicates areas to be ignored, and any other colour indicates areas that may be blended. so black = not invited to the party, everything else = welcome, we're blending 💖
also, and this is the part people get wrong: only masks need to be TIFF files. the input images can be any filetype supported by nona. so don't stress about converting your whole camera roll, okay? 😭

she requires Panotools::Script, nona and ImageMagick. so like, get those first or she will simply not run. 💀

more lore here: <http://hugin.sourceforge.net/>

👑 LICENSE 👑

this program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

periodt. share freely, share kindly. 🌈

🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

  • perl
  • Panotools::Script

both of them. go read 'em. iykyk 📚

💜 AUTHOR 💜

April 2007, Bruno Postle <bruno AT postle.net> — absolute legend, thank you for your service 🫡💐

and that's the whole page, bestie. this lil' beauty ships with perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25, and she's page NONA-MASK(1) in the user contributed perl documentation section. slay, mask, stitch, repeat. ✨💅🎀

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