# Clip mask feature plsssss

**URL:** <https://community.aseprite.org/t/clip-mask-feature-plsssss/8945>\
**Category:** Features\
**Created:** [April 30, 2021, 10:51pm UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/clip-mask-feature-plsssss/8945 "2021-04-30T22:51:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Glitcher](https://community.aseprite.org/user_avatar/community.aseprite.org/glitcher/32/535_2.png) [@Glitcher](https://community.aseprite.org/u/Glitcher)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 4:45pm UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/clip-mask-feature-plsssss/8945/2 "2021-05-01T16:45:03Z")

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A masking functionality has been requested by the community for many years – both here in [Community](https://community.aseprite.org/t/layer-mask-for-color-and-transparency/311) and on [GitHub](https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/issues/459).

Sadly, it seems to be pretty low priority. At first glance, this doesn’t seem particularly hard to implement – it’s essentially an “alpha” blending method, simple math. But it looks like Aseprite’s method for storing and displaying color is kinda messy under the hood ([documented here](https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/issues/286)), so who knows. Maybe this isn’t currently doable at all.

Anyway, I’d love to hear @dacap’s word on this – has there been any progress on this topic?

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