VIDEO PAINT: CHAPTER TWO 285Moving a selection area marquee (mask)Sometimes you will want to use a selection area without moving the imagedata it contains. For example, you may want to move a selection area toexpose certain portions of an image, or to protect other portions from anyeffects or changes you may apply to the image. To do this, click theMove Selection Marquee button on the Attribute toolbar or use theGrabber tool on the Tool panel. Now, you can safely drag on the selec-tion area without affecting the composite image. (The Move SelectionMarquee is only active if the selection is not floating.)Notes:•Use the arrow keys on your keyboard to move a selection pixel by pixel.•To move a selection marquee to another frame, first copy it and then click Edit:Paste - As Mask, see page 259.Working with colorBefore you start painting on images, you need to select the color you wishto apply. In Video Paint, you can do this in a number of ways, frompicking colors out of a palette to selecting colors directly from an image.At any time, two colors are active – the foreground and background. Youcan see these colors as color squares at the bottom of the Tool panel withthe lower right square representing the foreground color. This is the colorthat is applied whenever you use a paint tool. The background color actsas the default color which is used each time you create a new project. Youcan quickly switch between the two by clicking the Switch arrow at thetop right of the two color squares.Adding additional areas to a selection
