Select tool in Preview (Tiger) vs Preview (Leopard)

Greetings all,
I recently upgraded from Tiger to Leopard. One of the things I noticed is that in Preview, the Tiger version would dim out any area of an image that was outside the selection box. This worked across all image formats. Now, in Leopard, the new Preview does not do this - it just gives a dashed selection area with handles - no part of the image is dimmed out, unless it's a PDF file.
I very much liked the feature of dimming out areas not selected in an image, and I am wondering if anyone knows of a way to bring this feature to the Leopard version of Preview ?
Thanks

Not I.

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