Selections and transformations

Corel Painter includes various tools for selecting an area of the canvas to mark it for special treatment. You can make selections to change an area, to protect an area from change, or to apply a transformation.

This section contains the following topics:

Creating and saving selections

Getting started with selections
Selecting areas by painting
Creating path-based selections
Creating pixel-based selections
Creating selections from layers
Choosing the protected area of a selection
Saving selections as alpha channels

Viewing and modifying selections

Working with the Selection Portfolio
Viewing selections
Inverting selections
Softening the edges of selections
Stroking selections
Modifying the borders of selections
Expanding or contracting selections
Adding to or subtracting from selections

Transforming selections

Preparing selections for transformations
Moving selections
Transforming a duplicate selection
Scaling and rotating path-based selections
Skewing and distorting path-based selections
Canceling transformations

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