Operation Manual

ULEAD PHOTOIMPACT USER GUIDE

CHAPTER 4: SELECTIONS & OBJECTS .............................. 121

Working with selections .................................................... 122

Pick Tool ................................................................................. 122

Standard Selection Tool - selecting regularly shaped areas ............ 122

Lasso Tool - selecting irregularly shaped areas ........................... 123

Magic Wand Tool - selecting an area containing similar colors ....... 125

Determining color similarity ..................................................... 126

Select by Color Range ............................................................... 126

Expanding a selection area ........................................................ 127

Extracting objects .................................................................... 127

Step 1 of 4: Drawing the boundary ........................................... 128

Step 2 of 4: Extracting the object ............................................. 128

Step 3 of 4: Adjusting degree of extraction ................................ 129

Step 4 of 4: Refining the object ................................................ 130

Mask Mode .............................................................................. 130

Layer mask and object mask .................................................... 132

Selecting on objects ................................................................. 134

Using the Selection Manager ...................................................... 134

Using a selection .................................................................... 134

Moving a selection area marquee ............................................... 135

Preserving the base image ........................................................ 135

Creating smooth-edged selection areas ....................................... 135

Softening a selection edge ........................................................ 136

Creating a border around a selection .......................................... 136

Adding to or subtracting from a selection .................................... 137

Working with objects ........................................................ 137

Managing object layers ............................................................. 138

Setting an object's properties .................................................... 138

Hiding and showing objects ....................................................... 139

Using the Object Properties dialog box ....................................... 139

Using the Layer Manager ......................................................... 139

Sorting objects ........................................................................ 139

Grouping and ungrouping objects ............................................... 140

Changing an object's layer in an image ....................................... 140

Editing objects ......................................................................... 141

Using Defringe ......................................................................... 141

Match Background Color ........................................................... 142

Adding a shadow to an object .................................................... 142

Separating a shadow from its object ........................................... 143

Copying and moving an object between images ........................... 143

Duplicating an object ................................................................ 143

Deleting an object .................................................................... 144

Spacing and aligning objects ..................................................... 144

Using libraries ................................................................... 145

Saving selections to the libraries ................................................ 145

Using an image or selection from the Object Library ..................... 146