Remove photo background using "enhance by color"?

[Luke.Hart]

It was introduced in the Dec 10th update and is only doucmented on the news page (http://support.xara.com/index.php?/News/List).

[gwpriester]

By bad for not looking at this page. I see it was linked in the Announcements page.

[David.P]

Hi @all,

I was just going to use the great "enhance by color" selection tool again.

However, it does not seem to be possible to make the tool to work only on a not masked part of a photo. It always seems to affect the entire photo no matter if parts of it are masked (i.e. protected) or not -- although the Knowledgebase says otherwise...?

I have masked out (protected) a part of my photo, however the "enhance by color" tool always applies to the entire photo. Why is that?

Cheers
David

[David.P]

OK command back...

It works now. It seems that the mask MUST be created BEFORE the "enhance by color" tool is applied just one single time to the photo.

Cheers
David

[David.P]

Small follow-on-question: Is it possible to hide mask/selection boundaries while still only applying color changes etc. to the selected/outmasked area of a photo?

The visible marching ants boundary is a little disturbing, so I'd like to hide it temporarily (as described here or mentioned here).