User Guide

Corel Painter 205
allowed anywhere on the canvas.
The selection is still active for
applying effects and using the Cut
or Copy command.
Draw Outside protects the area
inside the selection.
Draw Inside protects the area
outside the selection, similar to
using a stencil. Only the selected
region accepts brush strokes.
Turning Selections On and
Off
To turn off a selection:
• Choose Select menu > None.
Tip
•
You can also turn off a selection, or
“deselect” it, by clicking outside the
selection with the Oval Selection,
Rectangular Selection, or Lasso tool.
To re-activate a selection:
• Choose Select menu > Reselect.
Note
•
This command is available only if you
have turned off a selection.
Hiding and Showing the
Marquee
You can control display of the
selection marquee.
To hide or show the selection
marquee:
• Choose one of the following:
• Select menu > Hide Marquee.
• Select menu > Show Mar-
quee.
Note
•
The drawing mode is in effect even if
the marquee is hidden.
Inverting the Selection
Inverting a selection switches the
selection area. For example, if you
have an image of a boat on the water
and you’ve created a precise selection
of the boat, you can select everything
but the boat by inverting the selection.
In this image, the flower is selected.
After inverting the selection, everything but the
flower is selected.
A pixel-based selection can have 256
values in it, like a grayscale image.
Inverting a pixel-based selection is
equivalent to the negative of a
grayscale image. For example, a pixel
that has 80% luminance will have 20%
luminance when inverted.