Remember to select Anti-Alias for the Edge and try to
separate the pixels between what you're selecting and
excluding. The Anti-Alias edge will keep the separation
softer.
Step 4: Saving Your
Selection
Once you're satisfied with your selection, it's a good
idea to save it. This is very helpful for this type of
selection since it's taken a fair amount of time to create.
With the selection still active, do one of the following:
This means that as long as you save your current document
and close out of Fireworks the selection is saved with it.
The next time you open the file, you can double click on the
image and then right click in the canvas and select Restore
Selection and the selection will be restored and active.
This is especially helpful when you're first creating
selections as you won't always know how good or bad of a
selection you created until you modify it. In the next step,
we're going to copy the selection and modify it. If the
selection we copy and modify isn't the best selection, we
can delete it and restore the selection for further
modifying.
Step 5: Copying and
Modifying the Selection
With the selection still active:
- Click Control-C or Command-C to
copy the selection
- Click the Escape Key to
deselect the selection. Optionally, you can click
Control-D or Command-D to deselect or click the
Exit Bitmap Mode button to exit and deselect
- Create a
New Layer and Paste the copied selection on that
layer.
- Lock the bottom layer
temporarily to prevent it from getting selected.
- Turn off the bottom layer's visibility
This looks like a good selection but we will have a
better idea of just how good it is after we colorize it and
toggle its visibility with the bottom layer visible.
Step 6: Adjusting the
Copied Hat's Color
- With the hat selected, click on the Effects drop-down
menu in the Property Inspector and select
Adjust Color>Hue Saturation...
- In the pop-up window, select the
Colorize button and adjust the sliders to colorize the
hat. In this example I'm changing the color to red.
- Turn the visibility back on for the bottom layer
- Toggle the visibility of the 2nd layer on and off to
view the colorized hat over the bottom hat
At this point, if your selection is the way you like it,
you're ready for the final step.
It's possible, however, you didn't quite make the perfect
selection the first time and will need to return to your
selection and make further edits. To restore and modify your
original selection:
- Delete Layer 2 with the
colored hat since we're going to create a new one.
- Unlock Layer 1 and
double-click the image
- Right click and select Restore
Selection from the drop down menu
- Make the necessary modifications to your selection by
adding and subtracting from the selection as you did
earlier
- Save your selection again to keep your latest changes
as you did in
Step 4
- Continue from
Step 5 to copy and paste your new selection
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