Drawing a Hilight

1. Draw over the edge of a flower with a thick gray highlight. The cursor circle* will act as a marker tip.
    (The cursor mode must be set to "Draw Hilight" and the display mode must be set to "Image Hilighting").

*NOTE: The Windows version currently does not display a 'cursor circle'. You will see the traditional Windows pointer instead, however, the drawing characteristics will be as shown here.

Important: The hilight does not need to be precise but it does need to contain the edge of the flower. Try to draw the highlight so that the edge of the object runs approximately at the middle of the highlight trace.

2. Draw with left mouse button depressed. The right mouse button turns the cursor into an eraser.
3. Draw with the <Shift> key depressed to have every mouse click connected with a line segment.
4. The outline must be closed on either itself or the image border. You may also draw hilights around multiple objects.

More about Hilight Image menu*


 

Create a matte

1. Click on the image with the middle mouse button anywhere outside the outline. This outside area will then turn dark.

2. Click Create Matte button. The display will switch to Outlined Image, showing the outline of the object superimposed on the original image.
Hilight Image menu will be replaced with Create Matte menu.
 
 


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