Operation Manual

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Selecting areas to keep or discard
A pair of brushes for keeping and discarding is used to "paint" areas of
the image. 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 retained or discarded (depending on
brush type). A configurable number of pixels adjacent to the outline area
are blended.
To select image areas for keeping/discarding:
1.
In Cutout Studio, click either Keep Brush Tool
or Discard Brush Tool from the left of the Studio workspace.
2. (Optional) Pick a Brush size 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.