Adobe 65011817 - Fireworks CS4 - Mac Using Manual page 64

USING FIREWORKS CS4
Working with bitmaps
Two pointers appear.
• The first is the source and is in the shape of a cross hair.
• Depending upon the brush preferences you've selected, the second pointer is a rubber stamp, a cross hair, or a
blue circle. As you drag the second pointer, pixels beneath the first pointer are copied and applied to the area
beneath the second.
Set options for the Rubber Stamp tool
1 Select the Rubber Stamp tool.
In the Property inspector, set Rubber Stamp options:
2
Determines the size of the stamp.
Size
Determines the softness of the stroke (100% is hard; 0% is soft).
Edge
Determines the sampling operation. When Source Aligned is selected, the sampling pointer moves
Source Aligned
vertically and horizontally in alignment with the second. When Source Aligned is deselected, the sample area is
fixed, regardless of where you move and click the second pointer.
Samples from all objects on all layers. When this option is deselected, the Rubber Stamp tool
Use Entire Document
samples from the active object only.
Determines how much of the background can be seen through the stroke.
Opacity
Determines how the cloned image affects the background.
Blend Mode
Duplicate a pixel selection
• Drag the pixel selection with the Subselection tool.
• Alt-drag (Windows) or Option-drag (Mac OS) the pixel selection, using the Pointer tool.
Blur, sharpen, and smudge images
The Blur and Sharpen tools affect the focus of pixels. The Blur tool lets you emphasize parts of an image by selectively
blurring the focus of elements. The Sharpen tool is useful for repairing scanning problems or out-of-focus
photographs. The Smudge tool lets you gently blend colors.
1 Select the Blur, Sharpen, or Smudge tool.
Set brush options in the Property inspector:
2
Sets the size of the brush tip.
Size
Specifies the softness of the brush tip.
Edge
Sets a round or square brush tip shape.
Shape
Sets the amount of blurring or sharpening.
Intensity
Smudge options
Sets the intensity of the stroke.
Pressure
Allows you to smudge using a specified color at the beginning of each stroke. If this option is
Smudge Color
deselected, the tool uses the color under the tool pointer.
Smudges using color data from all objects on all layers. If this option is deselected, the
Use Entire Document
Smudge tool uses colors from the active object only.
Last updated 3/8/2011
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