Knock Out2 User Guide

KnockOut 2 User Guide The contents of this user guide and the associated KnockOut software are the property of Corel Corporation and its respective licensors, and are protected by copyright. For more complete copyright information about KnockOut, please refer to the About KnockOut section in the Help menu of the software. Copyright 1999-2003 Corel Corporation. All rights reserved. Corel, Corel PHOTO-PAINT, Corel Painter, and Painter 7 are trademarks or registered trademarks of Corel Corporation and/or its subsidiaries in Canada, the U.S. and/or other countries. Knockout is a trademark of Ultimatte Corporation. Adobe and Photoshop are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. Mac OS is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. registered in the United States and/or other countries. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Other product, font, and company names and logos may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Table of contents Welcome to KnockOut 2 . . . . 1 Cutting out areas of the foreground . . . 21 What’s new in KnockOut 2. . . . . . 1 Processing images and evaluating the results . 22 About Corel Corporation . . . . . . 2 Refining images after processing . . . . 24 Saving knocked-out images as masks . . . 25 Corel Customer Support Services . . 3 Refining transition areas . . . . 27 Getting started . . . . . . 7 Restoring foreground detail in the transition area 27 How KnockOut works . . . . . . . 7 Removing background from the transition area . 29 The KnockOut workspace . . . . . . 8 Working with images of transparent objects. . 29 Installing KnockOut . . . . . . . 10 Feathering the transition area . . . . . 31 Learning to use KnockOut . . . . . 10 Changing memory settings . . . . . 11 Capturing shadows . . . . . 33 Loading and saving images . . . . . 11 Defining shadow selections . . . . . 33 Using the toolbox . . . . . . . 12 Editing shadow selections .…