Select the files you want to import. Ill select all three images in the folder. Notice the names of my images ("portrait.jpg", "sunset.jpg" and "texture.jpg"). Photoshop will use the file names as the layer names so it's a good idea to rename your files first. Then click Open.
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The way to paint layer masks in Mari seems to be pretty straightforward but as I said if you want to import a texture as layer mask you need to follow some steps.

Backgrounds/Textures. Food and Drink. Objects.To import an Illustrator file into After Effects, launch After Effects, and navigate to File > Import > File. Choose your Illustrator file and ensure that at the bottom, under Import Kind, you opt for Composition Layer Size.

Importing textures. Changing import type.We use one layer to make the overall blobby structure of the continents. Then another layer breaks up the edges a bit, and then another, and so on. What we will do is calculate n with four lines of shader code instead of just one. n becomes