Operation Manual

Working with Pictures 179
To create a vector-cropped bitmap:
1. Select Vector-cropped Bitmap from the Output Type drop-down menu.
2. Drag the Feather slider to apply a soft or blurry edge inside the cutout edge.
3. Drag the Smoothness slider to smooth out the cutout edge.
4. The Inflate slider acts as an positive or negative offset from the cutout edge.
Selecting areas to keep or discard
A pair of brushes for keeping and discarding is used to enable parts of the image
to be selected. The tools are called Keep Brush and Discard Brush, and are
either used independently or, more typically, in combination with each other.
When using either tool, the brush paints an area contained by an outline which
is considered to be discarded or retained (depending on brush type). A
configurable number of pixels adjacent to the outline area are blended.
Either tool allows the default brush size to be set before you select
areas for keeping/discarding. You can set your own custom size or
use a small, medium, or large preset brush size. Choose from the top
of the Studio workspace.
To aid the selection operation, several display modes are available
to show selection.
Show Original, Show Tinted, and Show Transparent buttons
respectively display the image with:
• selection areas only
• various coloured tints aiding complex selection
operations
• checkerboard transparency areas marked for discarding.
For Show tinted, a red tint indicates areas to be discarded; a green
tint shows areas to be kept.
For Show transparent mode, a different Background colour can be
set (at the bottom of the Studio) while Show Transparent is enabled;
this may help give better contrast at cut edges while fine tuning.