Yes, I am a newbie. And YES, I have searched for this before posting. I am only able to find stuff about some "alpha mask plugin" and I'm still not sure what that's all about but I am just looking for a tut on how to use a mask like this:
I see these on free digital scrapbooking blogs but the tuts are always for Photoshop and I've tried following them but not getting anywhere. I guess most digital scrappers don't use paint.net so I'm at a loss!