Corel PaintShop Pro Help | Using anti-aliasing with selections

Using anti-aliasing with selections

Anti-aliasing produces a smooth-edged selection by partially filling in pixels along the edge, making them semitransparent. You can apply anti-aliasing to selections as you create them. For more information about creating selections, see Creating selections.

After a selection is created, you can apply anti-aliasing based on the selection’s shape. You can also restore the original anti-aliasing of an object that was pasted into an image. Restoring anti-aliasing is useful if you made the selection without anti‑aliasing and you want to smooth the edges of the selection.

To apply anti-aliasing based on shape

Edit tab

1 Choose Selections

Modify

Shape Based Anti-alias.

The Shape Based Anti-alias dialog box appears.

2 Mark one of the following options:

• Inside — applies anti-aliasing to the inside of the selection marquee

• Outside — applies anti-aliasing to outside of the selection marquee

3 Click OK.

The selection edges are anti-aliased.

To recover anti-aliasing

Edit tab

1 Choose Selections

Modify

Recover Anti-alias.

The Recover Anti-alias dialog box appears, with the anti-aliased selection displayed in the After preview area.

2 Mark one of the following options:

• Inside — applies anti-aliasing inside the selection marquee

• Outside — applies anti-aliasing outside the selection marquee

3 Click OK.

To apply anti-aliasing to all layers in the selection, mark the Use all layers check box.

To apply anti-aliasing and copy the result to a new layer, mark the Result on new layer check box.