Paint Shop Pro 8 Power!

Chapter 5. Mastering Selections, Masks, and Channels

To have real control over your images, you need a firm understanding of selections, masks, and channels. Used in combination, selections, masks, and channels can make many image-editing tasks relatively easy, especially those that involve isolating particular areas of an image.

Here's what you'll be exploring in this chapter:

• Understanding the relationship between selections, masks, and channels

• Using selections, masks, and channels to isolate image areas and produce special effects

• Editing, saving, and loading selections and masks