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for details).
Or you can go into mask mode, draw a mask shape over the photo and
then use cut, copy and paste (or the combine shapes operations) to cut
or copy the part of the photo you've indicated with the mask.
See the Photo Handling chapter
for more information on using mask mode.
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.
Non-destructive editing
Unlike most photo tools which permanently edit the pixels of the photo when you cut objects out like
this, Xara Web Designer 7 Premium is non-destructive. The outline remains an editable vector outline
that you can edit just like any other vector shape, using the Freehand tool or Shape editor. Use the shape
editor to manually clean up your outline, revealing more or less of the image as you edit the edges.
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.
It's important to understand that the line remains fully editable so, unlike most painting or photo
re-touching programs, you can select and later adjust the line shape and the brush stroke.
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