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354 Photo Handling

Extracting the original JPEG
Right click on any image in the BITMAP GALLERY and select the SAVE menu option to save
the original JPEG back to your file system.

Blending & Merging photos

By making copies of photos on top of each other, and applying different effects to the
copies, combined with Designer Pro's advanced transparency controls, you can easily
create blended photo compositions. For example to selectively blur parts of a photo takes
a few seconds.

By placing the blurred copy with the 'hole' created by the transparency effect over the
sharp original, the blended result shows the sharp face area through.

Creating copies of any object requires a single key press, or click (drag with right mouse
button). Blurring a photo takes a single drag on a blur slider of the PHOTO TOOL, applying
a gradated transparency is just another click-drag in the TRANSPARENCY TOOL, and finally