ADOBE FIREWORKS CS3
User Guide
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Selecting an area around an existing marquee
You can create an additional marquee to frame an existing marquee at a specified width. This lets you create special
graphics effects, such as feathering the edges of a pixel selection.
To select an area around an existing marquee:
1 After drawing a marquee, select Select > Border Marquee.
2 Enter the width of the marquee that you want to place around the existing marquee, and click OK.
Smoothing the border of a marquee
You can eliminate excess pixels along the edges of a pixel selection. This is useful if excess pixels appear along the
border of a pixel selection or marquee after you use the Magic Wand tool.
A pixel selection before and after smoothing
To smooth the border of a marquee:
1 Choose Select > Smooth Marquee.
2 Enter a sample radius to specify the desired degree of smoothing, and click OK.
Converting a marquee to a path
Using Fireworks, you can convert a bitmap selection to a vector object by drawing a marquee around the part of the
bitmap that you want to convert. This process is useful if you want to start creating an animation by tracing a
selection from a bitmap, for example.
To convert a marquee to a path
❖ After drawing a marquee, select Select > Convert Marquee to Path.
The document’s current stroke and fill attributes are applied to the new path.
Transferring a marquee selection
You can transfer a marquee selection from one bitmap to another bitmap object on the same layer or one on a
different layer. You can also transfer the marquee selection to a mask.
To transfer a marquee selection to another bitmap object:
1
Make a selection by drawing the marquee.
2 In the Layers panel, select a different bitmap object on the same layer or an object on a different layer.
The marquee is transferred to that object.
Note: Fireworks treats masks and masked objects as separate objects. For more information on masks, see “Masking
images” on page 164.
