Build a graphic image treatment with masks

Give a portrait a graphic frame. In the Layout room a mask, a shape and a title stay three separate editable layers. This tutorial crops a portrait into a circle, puts a colour block behind it and exports the composition.

Steps

1. Add an ellipse mask. In Layout, select the image and open Masks. Add a vector mask and choose Ellipse to create a clean circular crop.
2. Test the edge. Try Feather to soften the edge, then return it to zero for a crisp graphic shape.
3. Place the face. Use Crop Zoom and Pan Y to bring the face into the circle. The image frame stays where it is; only the picture inside it moves.
4. Add a backing shape. Add a Rectangle behind the portrait. Open Arrange and choose Send to Back, then balance the shape with an editable title.
5. Export. Choose Deliver and This Aspect to export the PNG. Keep the project for later changes to the image, the mask and the type.

Notes

• Values in the project: ellipse at 90 percent width and height with a 5 percent offset; Feather tried at 2 percent and returned to 0; Crop Zoom 1.2 and Pan Y plus 0.4, with Pan X unchanged.
• The Rectangle is an 860 px square placed behind the portrait with a right-click, then Arrange and Send to Back. Dragging layers to reorder them was not used.
• Three editable layers remain: the rectangle, the image with its ellipse mask and the title.
• The photographs are generated assets from the TUSSENIN demonstration project, owned by Momentum Studios.