Editing lenses

After you create a lens, you can edit it. For example, you can add areas to it and remove areas from it. You can change the lens properties or change the transparency of a lens to fine-tune the changes you want to apply to the image.

Lenses can be selected and transformed in the same way that you select and transform objects. For information about selecting and transforming objects, see Working with objects and Modifying objects. You can also change the shape of a lens using a special effects filter. For more information about special effects, see Applying special effects.

To add an area to a lens

1 .	Click the Object pick tool .

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Paint tool

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Rectangle tool

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Ellipse tool

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Polygon tool

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Line tool

Ensure the New object button on the property bar is disabled.

When adding areas to a lens, the grayscale value of the foreground color or fill color affects the lens opacity. White adds areas to the lens, while black makes lens areas transparent. For more information, see Working with transparency.

The Rectangle tool, Ellipse tool, Polygon tool, and Line tool create new objects by default.

To remove an area from a lens

1 .	Click the Object pick tool .

3 .	Click the Eraser tool .

To change the properties of a lens

1 .	Click the Object pick tool .

3 .	Click Object Edit lens.

You cannot change the properties of a Desaturate lens or an Invert lens.

To change the transparency of a lens

1 .	Click the Object pick tool .

If the Object manager docker is not open, click Window Dockers Object manager.

The Opacity box is not available for 1-bit black-and-white images.

To change the shape of a lens by using a special effects filter

1 .	Click the Object pick tool .

Only some special effects change the shape of lenses. For example, many special effects from the 3D and Distort special effect categories work well.

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