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If you move the mouse pointer over a color selection point and right-click the mouse
button, a context menu appears with the following options.

DESELECT Deselect the current color selection so you can start a new color selection.
You can also deselect by pressing the Esc key.

DELETE COLOR Delete the color selection to which the point you clicked on belongs.
SELECTION Therefore all the points that are part of the same color selection will
disappear.

DELETE THIS COLOR Delete only the point you clicked on. Any other points in the same color
POINT selection remain.

MAKE TRANSPARENT Makes the current color selection transparent. You can toggle on or off.

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Using masks or regions

If you want to just enhance a particular area of your photo, first use one of the Photo
Region tools to mark the region of the photo you want to modify. Or use a Mask tool to
protect parts of the photo you don’t want modified.

Then switch to the Enhance Tool and make your changes. The mask or region is used to
limit the parts of the photo the enhance operation is applied to and afterwards you are left
with a region inside the Photo Group. Whenever this region is selected inside the Photo
Group, its outline is shown with "marching ants". To select such a region inside a Photo
Group, Ctrl+click on it or select it from the Page and Layer gallery (on page 178) where it
will appear as a Region within a Photo Group (on page 341). Looking at the Status line
(on page 37) will also clearly show you when you have a region or mask selected inside
a Photo Group.

Note that you should almost always apply feathering to a region inside a Photo Group, to
soften its edges and blend the enhance effect seamlessly into the photo. Hard-edged
regions are rarely useful. See the Feather tool (on page 91) for details. You can apply