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TIP OF THE FORTNIGHT

Move brush to make precise edits in ImageFX

My favourite tool in Issue 706’s excellent Cover Feature on AI tools is ImageFX (www.snipca.com/54057). It’s the easiest image generator I’ve ever used, and has some advanced editing options if you know how to use them. Type your descriptive prompt as usual, then click Generate and select an image you like. Hover over it and the ‘Edit image’ button should appear bottom left. Click this and you’ll be taken to a page where you can change the ‘brush size’ slider ( 1 in screenshot). This indicates the size of the brush you can move over the image – like a standard brush tool in a traditional image-editing program.

Now draw the virtual brush over the part of the image you want to edit 2 and type a description of the changes you want on the left 3 . All that’s left is to click ‘Generate edits’ 4 – or ‘Clear mask’ to undo any edits.

Philip Wilkinson

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SOFTWARE

Allow screenshots of password manager

I prefer passphrases to passwords, so was interested that KeePassXC – my password manager of choice – now lets you mix upper- and lower-case letters (see Issue 707, page 11). Somehow, mostly thanks to Computeractive, I’ve become the tech helper to my extended family, and I often send them screenshots of software settings they should activate. I wanted to do this for the KeePassXC tip, but none of my screenshot programs would work. It was annoying at first, but then I realised it must be for security reasons. But then I started wondering how Computeractive had managed to publish a screenshot. I assumed KeePassXC lets you do it somehow, and I was right. Click ‘View’ at the top, then tick Allow Screen Capture. I then took screenshots just as I would in any other program.