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Chapter 6: Advanced Photo Editing
Microsoft Digital Image Standard User’s Manual
Multiple Selection, Grouping, and Flattening
Objects
Digital Image allows you to create composites that contain many objects. While
objects are separate, you can edit each one individually. However, sometimes
you may want to edit two or more objects at the same time. There are three
methods to join objects so that you can edit them together. From least perma
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nent to most permanent, the three methods for combining objects are multiple
selection, grouping, and flattening.
Multiple Selection
Multiple selection links objects temporarily. For example, if you wanted to
move three objects the same amount to the left, you could select the objects, and
then drag them together on the canvas. Then, as soon as you select a different
object to work on, the multiple-selected objects are no longer connected.
These three objects are a multiple selection, so they can be edited as a set and then sepa-
rated later.
To select multiple objects:
1. Make sure that the Stack is showing.
2. Pressing CTRL, click each thumbnail on the Stack until all of the objects
are selected.
3. To cancel the multiple selection, click any single object in the Stack
.