User Guide
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CHAPTER 8. TOOLS 68
8.18.2 Flip Tool Options
Flip Tool Settings
Tool Toggle The Tool Toggle settings control flipping in either a Horizontal direction
or a Vertical one. This toggle can also be switched using a key modification.
Additional Information
Default Keyboard Shortcut:
Shift
F
Key modifiers:
•
Ctrl toggles the flip direction.
8.19 Free-Hand Selection
8.19.1 Overview
Free-Hand Selection allows hand drawn selection areas. Simply click and drag
with Button1 to create a free-hand selection area.
8.19.2 Free-Hand Selection Tool Options
Free-Hand Selection Settings
Feather The Feather slider sets the amount of feathering to create around the ren-
dered selection area. Feathering softens the edge of the selection by the speci-
fied number of pixels. See also: Feather Selection.
Antialiasing The Antialiasing button toggles the rendering of aliased edges on the
selection boundary. Aliasing produces smoother curves and angles and is rec-
ommended for most uses.
Additional Information
Default Keyboard Shortcut:
F
Key modifiers:
•
Ctrl is used to subtract from existing selections.
•
Alt is used to move an existing selection.
•
Shift is used to add to existing selections.
•
Shift
Ctrl is used to produce selection intersections. This is also known as
union selections.
When moving selections beyond the boundaries of the image, the selection
area will be cropped to the image area. Selections cannot exist outside
image areas. Selection movements and changes are kept in the undo
history just in case.