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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