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338 Photo Regions and Masks

1. Select one of the mask tools from the Regions and Masks tools flyout bar and draw
whatever mask shape you require around the area you wish to protect.
2. Now go into the Content Aware photo scaling tool (Photo tool fly-out bar on
the main toolbar) and click on the photo.

See the Content Aware Scaling (on page 404) feature for more information.

Photo enhance tool

Use one of the Enhance tools to apply brightness, contrast, saturation, temperature and
blur/sharpen changes to any part of a photo.

1. Select one of the Region tools from the Regions and Masks tool flyout bar and draw
whatever shape you require around the area you wish to enhance.
2. Now go into the Enhance Photos tool (Photo tool fly-out bar on the main toolbar)
and click on the photo.
3. Use the Enhance controls from the Photo tool InfoBar.

Advanced users may wish to use Soft masks to introduce graduated effects to the photo
enhance operation. See the Photo Tool and Photo Handling chapters for more
information.

Photo clone tool

The clone tool will take a mask shape and convert it into a clone shape, which copies
one part of a photo to another part. See the Clone Tool section (on page 395) of the
Photo Tool chapter for details.

Combine Shapes
There are a set of operations under the "ARRANGE" > "COMBINE SHAPES" menu that allow
you to combine shapes in a number of different ways. You can also use these with the
region tools.

For example to slice a piece of a photo out (cookie cutter style),
1. Select one of the regions tools from the PHOTO REGIONS AND MASKS tools flyout bar
and draw whatever shape you require.
2. Select "ARRANGE" > "COMBINE SHAPES" > "SLICE".