Re: Photo refresher
From Xara's HELP FILES:
Erasing backgrounds
This feature is particularly good for removing or changing the background behind complex shapes such as fur, hair, trees etc, that would be tedious, or impossible to mask manually. You only need to indicate the approximate areas to erase (with the Eraser tool) and the areas to protect (with the Mask Painter Tool), and then click the 'Erase background' button.
1. Use the Eraser Tool to roughly paint over the parts of the picture you want to erase (the background).
2. Select the Mask Painter Tool and paint over some of the parts of the foreground you want to keep.
3. Select the Eraser Tool again and then click on Erase background on the top InfoBar.
If the foreground is all a similar color you only need to cover part of it with the mask. If the foreground has differing colors, then paint the mask over each of the differing color areas. Use zoom (Ctrl+mouse wheel) to mask more or less detail and try not to mask over any background color or regions.
Make sure you don't cover any of the foreground in the background selection or vice versa. You don't need to be accurate, this is about as accurate as you need. Sometimes if you have a particularly messy background, you may have to be choosy on the colours/tones you select. If you get left with any artifacts, you can use the erase brush to erase them independently.
Keith
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