# Example Image with Mask
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**Author:**  [@johko](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fjohko)%5C
**Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 9:02pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fexample-image-with-mask%2F23414%2F1 "2022-09-20T21:02:48Z")
When I use the `sketch` option in an image input, how do I define an example mask input in Gradio?
I tried to build a numpy array matching the size of the image and filled like a clean mask, but that did not work.
here is one way I tried:
```auto
example_mask = np.empty((327,600,4))
example_mask[:] = [0,0,0,255]
examples=[["bruce.png", example_mask], "64", "128"],
```
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**Author:**  [@abidlabs](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fabidlabs)%5C
**Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 6:41pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fexample-image-with-mask%2F23414%2F2 "2022-09-22T18:41:30Z")
Currently, it is not possible to provide an example mask. We’ll work on this in the future!
We are keeping track of sketching-related issues here: [refreshed image input component · Issue #466 · gradio-app/gradio · GitHub](https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio/issues/466)
Would you kindly be able to add this to the issue?
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**Author:**  [@johko](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fjohko)%5C
**Post date:** [September 23, 2022, 8:49am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fexample-image-with-mask%2F23414%2F3 "2022-09-23T08:49:58Z")
Thank you for the reply, I will add the topic in the issue 🙂