Ulead PHOTO EXPRESS MD 5345 User Manual page 20

Making selections using the SmartSelect
tool:
1 In Photo mode, click Edit on the Menu
Command bar then select Selection:
SmartSelect.
2 Click at the point where you want to begin
the selection area. When the red button
appears, click at areas around the image to
make new reference points.
3 Click the red button again to close the
selection. The button then turns to green.
4 To fine tune the current selection, move
the mouse over an area of the selection
frame until the cursor changes to a
pointing finger.
5 Click and drag to modify the highlighted
portion of the selection frame.
6 When done editing, click the green button
to create the actual selection.
Selecting an area by color:
1 In the Menu Command bar, select Edit:
Selection - By Color.
2 Click on or drag over the base image to
select reference colors.
Notes:
•
The Similarity value determines the
range of colors to include in the
selection. Adjust it if you find that your
selection is not clean or does not
cover the entire range of the selected
color.
•
The Expand selection option selects
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all areas of a similar color throughout
the entire image.
Tip: When the surrounding colors are
very similar to the edge colors, adjust the
Tolerance slider to the left.