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Photo Tool Notes
1.
You can select different photos while using the photo tools by just clicking on them. This also
works for photos inside groups.
2.
If you click and drag, while in the Enhance Tool, it will start a crop on the photo that you started
dragging on. Or, if you start dragging on the background, the crop will be applied to the first
photo you touch during the drag.
3.
The Un-clip button in the Clip Tool will change the outline of any clipped photo, and also
arbitrarily formed shapes with a bitmap fill, to that rectangular outline of the complete photo or
bitmap used as the fill. You may have to select the Clear button to clear the crop rectangle (or
click outside the rectangle).
4.
All photo operations can be fully undone. Unlike traditional photo or pixel editors, the original
photo is never altered until or unless you optimize the photo to make the changes permanent. So
this means you can make as many changes as you like, as often as you like, and save and load
.xar/.web files as often as you like, and there is no degradation of the image (all edit operations
are non-destructive and loss-less) and give no increase in file size.
5.
All the Photo Tool options, including the levels control, operate on bitmap filled objects, as well
as stand-alone photos.
6.
Opening a photo with Web Designer MX Premium (using "File" > "Open") opens it as a Photo
Document. After editing it, you can overwrite your photo file by just doing a "File" > "Save"
("Ctrl + S"). A .web or .xar file is also saved into a Masters folder alongside your modified
photo, preserving your original photo and edits. See the Photo Handling chapter for more details.
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