Permit'due south use the selection tool

Using "Select Tool", you lot can select role of the picture. At this time, the selected area is called "option range".

Using the "Bucket Tool" or "Transform Tool" after creating the "selection range", yous tin pigment and transform only the moving-picture show in the "pick range".

There are several means to specify "selection range" in MediBang Paint, and so we explain each.

Select Tool

Y'all tin can select the range as "Rectangle" "Ellipse" "Polygon" shape.

Select Tool
Explanation. Select Tool

When you click the "Selection tool" button on the toolbar on the left side of the master window, you can select the option method from "Rectangle" "Ellipse" "Polygon".

Setting to circular the corner, selection from the heart, fixing the aspect ratio is the aforementioned usage equally "Fill tool".

Tips

To cancel the selection range, you tin select "Select" → "Deselect" in the menu or "Deselect" push on the tool bar at the acme of the main window.

Tips

With the selected range created, if y'all execute "Edit" → "Crop" in the menu, the canvas is cropped to the size of the pick range.

Lasso Tool

If you lot use "Lasso Tool", yous can create a choice by freehand.

Lasso Tool
Caption. Lasso Tool

Tips

If you already accept a selection range, you tin add a choice by holding down the Shift central and creating a selection range. Agree down the Ctrl key and cut the selection.

When selecting the selection range of (2) while pressing Shift for the selection range of (1)
Caption. When selecting the choice range of (2) while pressing Shift for the pick range of (1)
When selecting the selection range of (2) while holding down Ctrl for the selection range of (1)
Caption. When selecting the selection range of (ii) while holding down Ctrl for the selection range of (ane)

MagicWand Tool

Using "MagicWand Tool", you can create a option automatically along the office surrounded by a line and color form.

MagicWand Tool
Caption. MagicWand Tool

When "MagicWand Tool" is selected, the toolbar for "MagicWand Tool" is displayed at the meridian of the chief window.

'MagicWand Tool' toolbar
Caption. 'MagicWand Tool' toolbar

How to utilise this toolbar is the aforementioned as the "Saucepan Tool" toolbar.

SelectPen Tool

"SelectPen Tool" allows you to specify the selection range by mitt drawn.

"SelectPen Tool" is user-friendly when y'all want to select details that are difficult to specify with "Shape", "Lasso", "MagicWand", etc. since the painted place is the selection range intact.

SelectPen Tool
Caption. SelectPen Tool

Automatically create selection range based on drawing content

By using "Select" → "Create choice from Layer / Opacity" or "Create selection from Layer / Effulgence", you can create a selection based on the picture drawn on the layer .

Explanation. "Where

Change selection

Yous can erase the pick by using "SelectEraser Tool".

SelectEraser Tool
Explanation. SelectEraser Tool

Information technology can be erased with the sense of drawing a line, then information technology is convenient when you repair small parts.

Expanding selection and contraction

It is also possible to expand / contract the specified option range.
With the range selected, please select "Select" -> "Expand" or "Contract" of the bill of fare.

Expanding selection and contraction
Caption. Expanding selection and contraction

Since both dialogs are displayed, please input the number of pixels to be expanded / contracted and click "OK".

Expansion and contraction setting dialog
Caption. Expansion and wrinkle setting dialog

Invert and unselect selection

To invert the selection range and the pick range, select "Select" → "Inverse" in the card with the selection range specified.

Also, if y'all desire to cancel the selection range, please select "Deselect" in a higher place.

Invert and deselect selection
Caption. Capsize and deselect selection

Tips

By unchecking "Select" → "Highlight Outside" in the menu, you can erase the color (majestic) around the selection expanse.

Let'south attempt information technology

Let's actually utilise the selected range.

Please download the sample first and open it.

Where opened
Caption. Where opened

From hither, I volition clip the medi-chan to heart-shaped.

Select the "Heart" layer and permit's select inside the eye with "MagicWand Tool". Delight refer to "MagicWand tool" to "Layer".

Heart shaped selection range was made.
Caption. Heart shaped selection range was fabricated.

When yous capsize the selection by "Select" → "Inverse" in the menu, the outside of the center is selected.

Inverted and outside of the heart was selected
Caption. Inverted and outside of the heart was selected

In this state, you can select "medi-chan" layer, and from card "layer" → "clear" you tin erase only the outside of the heart. (If you perform an performance such as clearing a layer while creating a pick range, information technology will be reflected only inside the selected range.)

The state of extinguishing the outside of the heart
Caption. The state of extinguishing the outside of the heart

Signal

Even when you change the layer to exist selected, the choice range remains unchanged, so you tin can use the selection made using "MagicWand" on another layer.

Finally, if yous cancel the pick range and delete the "eye" layer, it is the finished "medi-chan" image clipped out in the shape of a middle.

Heart shaped Medi-chan
Caption. Heart shaped Medi-chan
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