@Alejandro_Silvestri
Thank you very much that was the ticket
trick was to set values 2 → 0 eg:
for (let i = 0; i < src.rows; i++) {
for (let j = 0; j < src.cols; j++) {
if (mask.ucharPtr(i, j)[0] == 2) {
mask.ucharPtr(i, j)[0] = 0
}
}
}