PhotoPlus X2 User Guide - Serif

82 Painting and Drawing
• You also have the option of protecting the current foreground colour
from erasure (Protect foreground).
If you use the tool on the Background layer, it's promoted to a standard
layer.
To erase with the Flood Eraser:
1. Select the Flood Eraser Tool from the Tools toolbar's Eraser Tools flyout.
2. Choose a brush tip on the Brush Tip tab and change properties, if necessary,
on the Context toolbar.
3. Drag with the tool on the active layer to erase pixels close in colour (based on
the Tolerance range) to the colour under the cursor when you first click. If you
use the tool on the Background layer, it's promoted to a standard layer.
• The Tolerance setting determines the breadth of the colour range to be
erased.
• The Opacity setting will alter the erased areas level of transparency.
• Check Contiguous to erase only within-tolerance pixels connected to
each other; when unchecked, all in-range pixels are erased.
• Check Use All Layers to take colour boundaries on other layers into
account, although erasure happens only on the current layer.
• Antialias smoothes the boundary between the erased area and the
remaining area.
Using patterns
The Pattern Tool lets you paint a pattern directly onto your canvas. In effect,
it "clones" any pattern bitmap you’ve selected while providing the flexibility to
paint wherever you wish, and control opacity, blend mode, and so on. Like the
Clone Tool, the Pattern brush picks up pixels from a source—in this case, the
bitmap pattern—and deposits them where you’re drawing. You can choose a predefined,
tiled bitmap pattern from the Patterns dialog, or define your own patterns.