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Cropping photos with a mask
If you want to make non-rectangular photo shapes or cut pieces out of a photo, use a mask. First select
the photo and then turn on Mask Mode.
Turn on Mask Mode by clicking on icon in the top bar.
The view turns pink. Now use any of the standard drawing tools to draw onto the mask layer over your
photo, just as you would draw onto a normal drawing layer. Then select the photo underneath, or clear
the selection (press "Esc"). Now if you copy ("Ctrl + C") you will copy just the unmasked part of the
photo to the paste buffer. Hit "Delete" and you'll delete the unmasked part. Or press "Ctrl + X" to cut it.
You can also use the mask to apply a Clipview or use the "Arrange" > "Combine
" shapes operations with it.
See the Mask chapter
for more information on using masks.
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