WebPlus Essentials User Guide - Serif

Selecting areas to keep or discard
Images, Animation, and Multimedia 191
A pair of brushes for keeping and discarding is used to "paint" areas of the
image. 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.
Background
Color
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 colored tints aiding complex selection
operations
• checkerboard transparency areas marked for discarding.
For Show tinted, a red tint indicates areas to be discarded; a green
tint shows areas to be kept.
For Show transparent mode, a different Background
color can be set (at bottom of the Studio) which might
help differentiate areas to keep or discard.
To select image areas for keeping/discarding:
1. In Image Cutout Studio, click either Keep brush or
Discard brush from the left of the Studio workspace.
2. (Optional) Pick a Brush size suitable for the area to be worked on.