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Once you’ve cut out a piece of a photo, it’s often a good idea to apply a small amount
of feather to blur the edge slightly.
Brush styles
The FREEHAND & BRUSH TOOL can also be used to apply different brush stroke styles
along the path of the line. Instead of being a solid, fixed-width line, you can change it
to be a variable-width line, or one of a near-infinite range of fancy brush styles, like
airbrush, felt tip marker, and many more.
The Straight Line & Arrow tool
This tool makes it easy to draw single segment straight lines and to add arrow heads
and tails to any lines in a way that is much easier and more powerful than doing the
same thing with the
LINE GALLERY.
Drawing & editing straight lines
Simply click and drag on the page to draw a straight line. You can click on any existing
line to select it, and once selected you can click-drag on either end to move the end of
the line around.
Adding arrowheads & tails
The infobar has two dropdown lists on the left which allow you to choose an arrow
head or tail style for each end of the selected line.
Arrow head
Arrow tail
Arrow head/tail size
Reverse path
The slider on the infobar allows you to change the size of the arrow head and tail on
the current selected line. Or you can enter a percentage value into the size text field to
the right of the slider.
Enter a value less than 100% to reduce the size of the arrowhead (and tail), or greater
than 100% to increase. Although the slider only takes the size value up to a maximum
of 800%, you can enter percentage values larger than this into the size text field.