way of illustration of specific embodiments in which the invention may be practiced these embodiments are described in sufficient detail to enable those skilled in the art to practice the invention and it is to be understood that other embodiments may be utilized and that logical mechanical electrical and other changes may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention the following detailed description is therefore not to be taken in a limiting sense and the scope of the present invention is defined only by the appended claims beginning with an overview of the operation of the invention fig1 a illustrates a system 100 which can control the effects of image manipulation according to one embodiment of the present invention system 100 includes server 101 and one or more clients 103 stored in memory resident within server 101 a typical software application 104 is an image editing package adapted to manipulate images provided by client 103 the operations of software application 104 may be controlled by server 101 or through control information from client 103 within the software application 104 an effects block 110 and a masking tool block 112 reside these u201c blocks u201d denote a.