Operation Manual

Pictures, Lines, and Shapes 187
To select image areas for keeping/discarding:
1. In Image Cutout Studio, click either Keep Brush Tool or
Discard Brush Tool 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. Uncheck the option to switch the feature off.
4. Using the circular cursor, click and drag across the area to be retained
or discarded (depending on Keep or Discard Brush Tool selection). It's
OK to repeatedly click and drag until your selection area is made.
The Undo button reverts to the last made selection.
To fine-tune your selection, you can switch between Keep and
Discard brushes by temporarily holding down the Alt key.
5. If you're outputting an alpha-edged bitmap, you can refine the area to
be kept/discarded within Image Cutout Studio (only after previewing)
with Erase and Restore touch-up tools. Vector-cropped images can be
cropped using standard PagePlus crop tools outside of the Studio.
Make your outline edge as exact as possible by using brush and
touch-up tools before committing your work.
6. Click OK to create your cutout.
You'll see your image in your publication in its original location, but with the
selected areas cut away (made transparent).
Click Reset if you want to revert your selected areas and start
your cutout again.