User Guide

Corel Painter 209
information about clones, refer
to “Cloning and Tracing” on
page 187.
• Image Luminance creates a
selection based on the current
image’s light and dark areas.
• Original Luminance produces
a selection in the current docu-
ment based on the clone
source’s light and dark areas.
This option lets you import an
image to the selection. If no
clone source is selected, Corel
Painter uses the current pat-
tern.
• Current Color creates a selec-
tion of pixels of the current pri-
mary color. You might want to
use the Dropper tool to pick a
color from the image before
using the Current Color
option.
If you want to invert the selection,
enable the Invert check box.
3 Click OK to generate the selection.
Selecting By Color
Corel Painter lets you create a non-
contiguous selection based on a range
of colors.
To generate a color-based
selection:
1 Choose Select menu > Color
Select.
2 With the Color Select dialog box
open, click in the document
window to pick a color.
3 Adjust the H Extents (hue), S
Extents (saturation), and V
Extents (value) sliders to control
the range of colors.
These sliders control the selected
range. You can drag the limits of
the range in either direction.
4 Adjust the H Feather (hue), S
Feather (saturation), and V
Feather (value) sliders to control
the feathering at the edges of the
color space extents.
This helps soften the selection
edge.
5 The Preview window shows the
selected area as a red overlay on the
image. Drag in the Preview to see
other parts of the document.
6 Click OK to generate the selection.
Creating Selections from
Layers
You can create a selection from a layer.
The new selection outlines the
contents of the layer, without
modifying the layer. For more
information about layers, refer to
“Layer Basics” on page 230.
To create a selection from a layer:
1 On the Layers palette, select a
layer.
2 Choose Select menu > Load
Selection.
3 In the Load Selection dialog box,
choose the selected layer’s
transparency from the Load From
pop-up menu.