MEDIASTUDIO PRO USER GUIDE280Making selectionsIn Video Paint, whenever you apply a command or use one of the paintingtools, it is applied over the entire image in the edit window. To restrict thecommand or painting tool to a certain area of an image, you first need tocreate a selection. To do this, Video Paint has three selection tools thatoffer a wide range of options for creating both simple and more complexselection areas. Once created, a selection marquee appears outlining theselected area.Note:In Paint Layer mode, the selection tools work by selecting the content of thepaint layer and not areas on the original image. (To do this, you need to be inComposite mode.)Understanding the selection marqueeWhen you create a selection, a dotted line appears around the edges of theselected area. This dotted line is called the selection marquee. Themarquee can either be floating (containing image data) or non-floating,(selecting the source video). Floating selections appear in the paint layerof an image and are created whenever you:• move a selection area,• perform a transformation on a selection area,• paste a selection into an image,• click Edit: Make Floating. (This command can also be selected fromthe right-click pop-up menu.)Hiding the selection marqueeWhenever you create a selection or make a floating selection, an animatedmarquee appears indicating the selection border. This makes selectionseasier to identify as well as move. If you find the marquee distracting, oryou prefer to see the entire selection as is, deselect the View: ShowMarquee command. The next time you create a selection or make afloating selection, the marquee is not displayed.
