PROCESS-MASKS(1)

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version 0.29 · 2 versions
, in fedora 43

✨ process-masks ✨

okay bestie so you know process-masks(1)? no? well, it's a preprocessor for enblend masks and it's lowkey iconic 💅 (also it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, iykyk)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

process-masks image1_mask.tif [image2_mask.tif ...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the vibe: this lil script takes the white areas in each mask — which are the pixels you wanna keep — and transfers them into black areas in the other masks. Basically it's doing the emotional labor of coordinating everybody's boundaries for them 💖

And listen: the areas that need to be blended? Those have to be indicated as shades of grey. no cap, that's the whole trick.

You pass your mask tif files in as program arguments. Heads up though — the originals get renamed and then replaced by the processed files. so don't come crying if you weren't paying attention 🙈

It requires ImageMagick. like, required required. it will not be doing this alone.

⚠️ also real talk: masks can be any bit depth, but they must have no alpha channel. periodt.

Some links if you're in your research era:

🎀 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. slay, legally 💜

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

  • perl
  • Panotools::Script

💖 AUTHOR 💖

October 2006, Bruno Postle <bruno AT postle.net> — an absolute legend, fr fr 🌟

and that's the whole thing bestie!! 🫶 this was served to you fresh from perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25, still out here being PROCESS-MASKS(1) in the wild 🌈✨ go blend some masks, you got this 💅

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