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176 Working with Pictures

To create a vector-cropped bitmap:

1. Select Vector-cropped Bitmap from the Output Type drop-down

menu.

2. Drag the Feather slider to apply a soft or blurry edge inside the cutout

edge.

3. Drag the Smoothness slider to smooth out the cutout edge.

4. The Inflate slider acts as an positive or negative offset from the cutout

edge.

Selecting areas to keep or discard

A pair of brushes for keeping and discarding is used to enable parts of the image

to be selected. The tools are called Keep Brush and Discard Brush, and are

either used independently or, more typically, in combination with each other.

When using either tool, the brush paints an area contained by an outline which

is considered to be discarded or retained (depending on brush type). A

configurable number of pixels adjacent to the outline area are blended.

Either tool allows the default brush size to be set before you select

areas for keeping/discarding. You can set your own custom size or

use a small, medium, or large preset brush size. Choose from the top

of the Studio workspace.

To aid the selection operation, several display modes

are available to show selection.

Show Original, Show Tinted, and Show

Transparent buttons respectively display the image

with:

• selection areas only

• various coloured tints aiding complex

selection operations

• checkerboard transparency areas marked

for discarding.

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