Drawing a mask

Press M and drag on the photograph to draw a Radial, Linear or Brush mask.

M activates the last drawing tool. Switch tools in the row at the bottom of Layers. The ＋ menu also includes Luminance range and Colour range, which create a layer immediately.

On-canvas controls. Radial shows centre, radii, rotation and feather handles. Linear shows two stops and a midline. Brush shows size and softness in its cursor ring, with Size, Soft and Flow in the tool row. Shapes remain aligned through crop and straighten.

Only the selected shape shows handles. Drawing selects it; clicking another shape’s chip moves the handles to it. Selecting the layer row hides handles.

Finish a shape. Click Done or press esc to remove handles and the tool’s temporary tint. The tool stays active for another shape. Click Put away or press esc again to close it. An overlay enabled with V remains unchanged.

Pins. Each layer has a pin at its first component. Toggle all pins with the pin button in the Layers header. Pins help locate layers while overlays are hidden.

Brush Snap. Enable Snap to include detected objects crossed by a stroke. The painted line and detected objects combine. Turning Snap off removes the detected expansion while retaining the painted stroke.

Edit brush strokes. Click a Brush chip to reopen it with its last Size, Soft and Flow. Existing strokes appear as outlines. New strokes append to the selected component; five strokes can therefore remain in one chip. Changing Size, Soft or Flow updates all its strokes, with one undo step per drag. Blend and visibility are preserved.

Snapped strokes retain their detected objects unless the photograph’s detection results are available, in which case Snap is recalculated.

Done, esc, ⏎, undo, switching layers or chips, clicking the selected chip again, or deleting or reordering a chip ends component editing and removes outlines. The tool remains active; the next drag creates a new component.