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The Photo Tools 401

Or go into the QUICKSHAPE TOOL and you can edit the selected red eye patch just
as you edit normal ellipse shapes in your documents.
Therefore if required you can make the red eye patches elliptical if that makes them fit
the red eye area better. See the Quickshape tool section for information on using this tool
to edit ellipses. However for most photos the default circular red eye patches are good
enough for removing red eye effects.

The edge of the red eye ellipse has a 3 pixel feather applied by default, so there is no
hard edge to the area from which the red is removed. You can easily adjust this feather
value by selecting the red eye ellipse (as above) and adjusting the feather value with the
main feather control (on the right hand side of the top bar), in the same way that you edit
the feather values of ordinary shapes.
After applying the RED EYE TOOL the red eye patches are grouped with the photo inside a
PHOTO GROUP. This is so that as you move the photo around in your document, or
otherwise transform it, the red eye patches move with the photo. Note that this means if
you want to select a red eye ellipse when you are not in the RED EYE TOOL, you need to
hold "Ctrl" down while clicking on the ellipse (which is called a ‘select inside’ operation).
See the Photo Handling chapter for information on Photo Groups (on page 341).

Click the CLEAR ALL button on the RED EYE TOOL InfoBar to delete all red eye ellipses
from the current selected photo.

Live Effects

Live Effects are bitmap effects that can be applied to any object using Xara Picture Editor
tools or Adobe® Photoshop® plug-ins.
The LIVE EFFECTS TOOL is located on the PHOTO TOOL flyout.

Browse through the list of available Live Effects by clicking the NEW button on the Live
Effects InfoBar.