TIP: Understand Image Masking Performance

Image masking allows us to adapt an image which we acquired from an external source to fit our design e.g. if we want to show an image cropped to a circle we could apply a mask to it in order to get an intelligent crop. This is a very powerful tool as a designer can supply a hardcoded mask image and build some pretty complex shapes that include an alpha channel as well (making it superior to shape clipping).

The most simple type of image masking can be achieved using code like this taken from this old post:

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http://bejomp3.com/tip-understand-image-masking-performance-6.html Image masking allows us to adapt an image which we acquired from an external source to fit our design e.g. if we want to show an image cropped to a circle we could apply a mask to it in order to get an intelligent crop. This is a very powerful tool as a designer can supply a hardcoded mask Game Tutorial #Image, #Masking, #Performance, #Understand

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TIP: Understand Image Masking Performance,