Operation Manual

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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.
To select image areas for keeping/discarding:
1. In Cutout Studio, click either
Keep brush or Discard
brush from the left of the Studio workspace.
2. (Optional) Pick a Brush Size suitable for the area to be worked on.
3. (Optional) Set a Grow Tolerance value to automatically expand the
selected area under the cursor (by detecting colours similar to those
within the current selection). The greater the value the more the
selected area will grow.
4. Using the circular cursor, click and drag across the area to be
retained. It's OK to repeatedly click and drag until your selection
area is made—you can't lose your selection unless you click the
Reset button. The Undo button reverts to the last made selection.
5. If you're outputting an alpha-edged bitmap, you can refine the area
to be kept/discarded within Cutout Studio (only after previewing)
with Erase and Restore touch-up tools. Vector-cropped images can
be cropped using standard DrawPlus crop tools outside of the
Studio.
6. Click
OK to create your cutout, or Cancel to abort the
operation.