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The Rectangle Region tool is used to create a selection (left). Cut or Delete then removes the
selected area of the Photo (right).

On the left example the selection has been inverted. Now when you Cut or Delete only the
cat's eyes remain, everything else is deleted.

You can use the PHOTO REGION AND MASK tools on top of any drawing or photo.

If you use these operations with soft masks, an Opacity Mask is created using the soft
mask. See the Opacity Masks (on page 304) section of the Transparency chapter for
details on Opacity Masks.

Duplicate, Clone
This will copy only the selected part of the drawing or photo. The Clone option places a
copy exactly on top of the original.

Content Aware photo scaling
To protect part of a photo from being scaled;