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Hi,

I have brought an image (of a bus) into Photoshop and I wanted to make it look like a fully assembled jigsaw puzzle. So I used the Pen tool to draw the jigsaw shapes, saving the shapes onto a single layer as a vector mask.

Then I rasterized the vector mask, making it a layer mask . . . and when I did, all the shapes disappeared, leaving only the image of the bus. But then I saw in the layers palette that the layer mask is there. I just can't seem to figure out how to make the layer mask appear on top of the background (bus) image.

When I right-click the layer mask thumbnail in the layers palette, I see various options. Here's what I get when I try them:

- When I "Apply Layer Mask" nothing seems to happen.

- When I "Add Layer Mask to Selection" or when I "Intersect Layer Mask With Selection," I get the jigsaw shapes appearing over the background image as flashing dotted lines . . . but there are also some diagonal lines appearing that I don't want.

Having created the shapes and rasterized them into a layer mask, it seems like it shouild be SO easy to make them appear on top of the background image, but I am stumped! Very much hoping you can help,

thanks,

--Jim