Okay, I felt like I was pretty good in 8 at previous versions in turning that pink mask on and cropping bitmaps with various shapes like ellipses, rectangles, free hand, etc. Like below:

Version 8 Mask
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Now in x9, while I love how you can get rid of an entire background with that new function..How in the heck do I do the simple things I used to do, like above, in previous versions?

Version 9; how to just mask in or out an ellipse or rectangle?
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