Apply Masking Tape for a Straight Line

all right so we've got um caulking and paint that has come out on this metal window uh i guess miles and miles out on the window i don't know how to even how to explain it but it's really bad so what i'm gonna do and usually you don't see it this bad but i'm gonna create a new line with frog tape and um and create a nice straight line i'm going to choose the farthest point that caulking is out on the window and then i'm going to just mask straight down from that point i don't want to have a wavy line i want to have a straight line some of it is out really far and i could just cut right through it but i'm going to choose the farthest point out which is right here and now i'm going to begin masking a straight line down this window and you don't have to use um you don't have to use clear caulking if the surface is really smooth this is a really really smooth surface so i'm not sure if it was bumpy like if it was a textured surface i definitely would be using a clear caulking so i've got a caulking gun with a dripless caulking gun that i'd be using clear caulking on but what happens with the caulking it'll on a smooth surface like this it'll leave a ridge a little tiny little ridge and i'm thinking i might not want that on this window so i'm going to just try to do it without it and we'll see how it turns out so i'm just masking this perfectly straight line down this window i'm just going to push on my frog tape so nothing will bleed through there and i've chosen a distance about a half inch you know out on this window right there just like that now i'm just going to paint