Change it to Lighten to paint over black and leave white untouched. (If you right-click the number fields you can change them from Byte to Percent.) If you want to paint over white and leave black areas untouched, change the brush blend mode (вЂњChannelsвЂќ) to Darken. To paint with a solid gray color, double-click the foreground color field and select one.

But repeated brush strokes will be additive. When painting on a mask, partial opacity may be obtained by painting with white or black and reduced intensity. When making very small adjustments, such as colorizing with a Hue/Saturation layer, or color balancing with curves, it sometimes helps to reduce the opacity of the layer to allow finer control over the adjustments. (The default keyboard shortcut is F11, which is customizable via Edit вЂ“ Options вЂ“ Usage вЂ“ Keyboard Layout.) To view an image with fewer distractions, click View вЂ“ Hide Panels/Show Panels. Find Outline Warping at Effects вЂ“ Distort вЂ“ Outline Warping, and select the rectangle shape. Rectify (Filter вЂ“ Digital Camera вЂ“ Rectify) is a quick but perhaps less precise way to correct perspective distortion place the four points so they define what should be horizontal and vertical lines. Clicking anywhere else rotates the image. Then click and drag one of the corner or side points while holding down the Ctrl key (Cmd key). Crop the entire image, or an area slightly larger. In addition to the Lens Correction filter, the Crop tool, Rectify, and Outline Warping may be used to correct perspective distortion. (You can add it as a button to the toolbar, or to the context menu.) Unfortunately there is no way to change the default behavior. To hide them for the current document, click View вЂ“ Show Layer Handles. When you paste a layer, layer handles are displayed by default. If you created a folder called PhotoLineSettings in the installation folder, all of your settings, including the toolbars and context menu, are saved to a file called PhotoLine.xml, allowing you to share your settings between installations. To use the custom context menu, middle click on the image, or Shift + right click.

Click the double arrowhead button to add items as above. The displayed image has a context menu which may be customized by the user via Edit вЂ“ Options вЂ“ Usage вЂ“ Context Menu. You can also delete any of the default buttons. Adjustment layers, Save as, and Web Export are good ones. (Or Edit вЂ“ Options вЂ“ Usage вЂ“ Toolbars.) Select any menu entry, then click the double arrowhead button and a new button will be added below the selected one. Right-click a toolbar (any of the icons) and select Edit Toolbar. The default toolbar is General you can edit it or create a new one (View вЂ“ Toolbars вЂ“ Custom Bar). An Introduction to Photo Editing with PhotoLine: Tips and Tricks

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