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•  All: Use this command if you want to select the entire image or layer. 

•  Invert: Selects all unselected areas, and deselects all selected areas.  For example, if 

you select a rectangular area and then use this command, everything outside the 

rectangle will be selected as opposed to inside. 

•  None: Deselects everything. 

•  Border: Adds a border around selected areas.  The selected area then becomes the area 

between the original area and the border.  It’s best to illustrate this: 

 

 

 

•  Expand: Extends the area covered by a selection.  You can control the amount that it 

expands. 

•  Smooth: This command can be particularly useful when there are selected areas that 

aren’t smooth due to extreme color variances when the Magic Wand is used.  What it 

does is rounds sharp areas of a selected area. 

•  Remove Holes: This command makes selected areas completely continuous.  If there 

are small areas that were excluded when you used a selection tool, this command will 

include them into the selection area. 

•  Magic Cut: This unique tool is used to select and crop object from an image.  When you 

run this tool, a built-in wizard will walk you through the process. 

 

Many of the options here have been discussed in the Layers Palette section.  You already know 

about the New, Delete, Merge All, and Properties options (double-click a layer to see the 
properties).  Here are some other layer options: 

•  Merge Selected: Combines only those layers that you’ve selected.  Hold the Control key 

on your keyboard and single-click the layers you want to select. 

•  Merge Down: This command combines the selected layer with the layer immediately 

below it. 

•  Soft Edge: This cool feature fades the edges of your layer.  You can control the 

intensity of the effect with a slider. 

•  Add Shadow: Like the Soft Edge effect, this is a neat feature that applies a shadow to 

your layer.  You can control the position and appearance of the shadow. 

  

PhotoStudio includes tons of enhancements and effects.  Most of them don’t differ too much in 
application.  All of them manipulate your images very differently, but the way you go about 

applying the enhancement or effect is pretty similar from one to another.  Here’s a sample.  We’ll 

modify the hue and saturation of a photo: