Fireworks strokes and masks create broken photo edges

1, open to add broken edge effect of the photo file, you can use a rectangular or circular tool to draw and cover to deal with the broken edge of the area contour, if you want to irregular shape of the area, you can also use the pen tool to draw a closed path, as shown:

2, after drawing a good path, select the path, fill color and stroke color are selected white, in the property bar to set the padding edge of a certain feather value, stroke type mainly in unnatural type strokes in the main irregular graphics, the final effect of this tutorial is selected [unnatural] [paint splash], Set the tip edge of the stroke soft to 0:

3, Set stroke options, select the advanced option strokes, further set the stroke effect, the tutorial use the settings for reference only, you can set different parameters according to different strokes:

4, select the path and photo two layer, modify the menu--mask--combined as a mask, note that the properties of the mask selected for grayscale appearance, get the final effect:

Png:

Note: Using the vector path mask, not only can modify the picture display position contour, at any time to remove the mask to restore the original image, and relative to the edge of this tutorial, you can change the stroke effect of the path at any time to achieve the goal of changing the edge effect.

To modify the masking method: Select the layers in the layer panel of the mask, adjust the property bar, as shown in the figure:

The padding edges of the mask are feathered in the tutorial, the goal is to blend the padding edges and strokes better to prevent too obvious boundaries between the edges and the picture body, but after combining the mask, because you need to select the type of mask for grayscale appearance, the edges will have some area of opacity change, if you do not want to have similar effects, To get a real broken edge, you can use the method used to create a broken photo edge effect using fireworks strokes and selections, but the steps will be a little more.