User Guide

Chapter 5: Editing
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To constrain the crop window to a ratio:
1. Select the Constrain cropping proportion check box.
2. Select a ratio from the drop-down list and select or clear the Landscape check box to
toggle the crop window between landscape and portrait orientation.
3. Do one of the following:
x Position your mouse cursor over the edge of the crop window until it changes into a
double-pointed arrow, and then drag the edge of the crop window to the desired size.
x Use the Width or Height spin box to specify a dimension for one side of the crop
window. ACDSee automatically resizes the other dimension based on the ratio you
selected.
Using selections
The Selections tool is the first icon in the Edit Mode toolbar. Selections is a tool
designed to work in combination with many of the other editing tools.
You use Selections to isolate an area of a photo so that you can then apply edits or filters to
only that area rather than the whole photo. There are three different selection tools and each
selects areas of a photo in a unique way. The controls available change depending on which
tool you select.
To open the Selections panel:
1. Do one of the following:
x In the Browser, click Tools | Open in Editor | Edit Mode.
x In the Viewer, Edit Image | Edit Mode on the toolbar.
x On the Edit Panel : Main Menu, click Selections.
The selection tools
x Freehand Lasso - click the left mouse button and drag the cursor to draw around the
area that you wish to select. As you draw, a line appears showing where you have drawn.
When you release the mouse, the end of the line joins to the start automatically to
complete the selection. The whole selection animates and looks like marching ants.
x Magic Wand - click on any area of the image and all the pixels the same color are
included in the selection. You can choose whether to select only the same color pixels that
are actually touching the one you clicked, or all the pixels in the photo that are similar.
You can increase the threshold to include more pixels in the selection. The lower the
threshold, the more similar a pixel has to be to the one clicked to be included. The greater
the threshold, the more different a pixel can be and still be in the selection.
x Marquee - click and drag either a rectangle or an ellipse that begins where you first click
and ends when you release the mouse.