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Painting-Out

All of the effects in PhotoTools can be Painted-Out. This is useful if you want to protect part of an image from the results of an effect. A good example would be when using the Auto Skin Smoother. When you use it, it may affect other parts of the image that are of similar color. You can use the Masking Brush set to Paint-Out to brush away the effect from these areas. Follow these steps to paint an effect out:

1. Select an effect from the Library and press the Add to Stack button
2. Select the Masking Brush (note the brush mode is automatically set to Paint-Out)
3. Paint in the After side of the preview window over the areas that you want to remove the effect from. You may need to adjust the brush size and opacity to get the control you desire
4. If you make a mistake with the brush you can toggle to Paint-In and paint your mistake away.

	The Masking Brush requires a video card that supports OpenGL 2.0 or higher. If PhotoTools detects that you have an incompatible video card it will warn you on launch and when you add a Paint-In effect. You can learn more about supported video cards here.

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