ADOBE FIREWORKS CS3
User Guide
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To show all objects:
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Select View > Show All.
Note:
To hide objects whether they are selected or not, you can click or drag along the Eye column in the Layers panel.
Selecting pixels
You can edit pixels over an entire canvas or select one of the selection tools to constrain your editing to a particular
area of an image:
The pixel selection tools draw selection marquees that define the area of selected pixels. After you draw the selection
marquee, you can manipulate it by moving it, adding to it, or basing another selection on it. You can edit the pixels
inside the selection, apply filters to the pixels, or erase pixels without affecting the pixels beyond the selection. You
can also create a floating selection of pixels that you can edit, move, cut, or copy.
Bitmap selection tool options
When you select the Marquee, Oval Marquee, Lasso, Polygon Lasso, or Magic Wand tool, the Property inspector
displays the options for that tool.
Selecting the Live marquee box allows you to change Edge settings and the amount of feather (if Feather is specified
as the Edge setting) for your bitmap selection while you’re using the Marquee, Oval Marquee, Lasso, Polygon Lasso,
and Magic Wand tool.
The Property inspector also displays three Edge options for these tools:
Hard
creates a marquee selection with a defined edge.
Anti-alias
prevents jagged edges in the marquee selection.
Feather
lets you soften the edge of the pixel selection.
When using a selection tool, you can set the Feather option before creating a selection, or you can feather existing
selections by selecting the Live marquee box. You can also feather existing selections using the Feather command in
the Select menu. For more information, see “Feathering a pixel selection” on page 49.
When you select the Marquee or Oval Marquee, the Property inspector also displays three style options:
Normal
lets you create a marquee in which the height and width are independent of each other.
Fixed Ratio
constrains the height and width to defined ratios.
Fixed Size
sets the height and width to a defined dimension.
The Marquee tool selects a rectangular area of pixels in an image.
The Oval Marquee tool selects an elliptical area of pixels in an image.
The Lasso tool selects a freeform area of pixels in an image.
The Polygon Lasso tool selects a straight-edged freeform area of pixels in an image.
The Magic Wand tool selects an area of similarly colored pixels in an image.
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