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List:       kde-kimageshop
Subject:    Re: SelectionTool
From:       Jeremy Blosser <jblosser () firinn ! org>
Date:       1999-08-24 18:39:18
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Jeremy Blosser [jblosser@firinn.org] wrote:
> Juliet Blosser [juliet@spirit.firinn.org] wrote:
> > One handy thing Photopaint does with selections, and this is particularly
> > nice with feathered selections, is show them in vector format within the 
> > image, but provide a separate optional dialog that shows the selection
> > in shades of a rather bright red color over the image.  (I believe the
> > image is shown in greyscale at that point.)  IMO it's even easier to figure
> > out what feathering is going to do that it would be if it were drawn 
> > directly on the image.
> 
> It also has an option to 'paint on mask', which renders the entire image as
> black, with the selection as shades of white.

I should have mentioned that in this view you can manipulate the selection
using the regular brush/etc tools.  The palette temporarily changes to
greyscale, and anything you make more or less white is added to or
subtracted from the selection.

>    http://jblosser.firinn.org/screenshots/photopaint/mask3.png

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