Editing Selected Parts of an Image

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You can perform standard editing operations — cutting, copying, clearing, and moving — with the selection, whether the selection is the entire image or just a part of it. Because the Graphics editor uses the Windows Clipboard, you can transfer images between the Graphics editor and other applications for Windows, such as Microsoft Word for Windows.

In addition, you can resize the selection, whether it includes the entire image or just a part.

What do you want to do?

Cut the current selection and move it to the Clipboard

Clear the current selection without moving it to the Clipboard

Paste the Clipboard contents into an image

Move the selection

Copy the selection

Draw with the selection

To cut the current selection and move it to the Clipboard

  • From the Edit menu, choose Cut.

To clear the current selection without moving it to the Clipboard

  • From the Edit menu, choose Clear.

    The original area of the selection is filled with the current background color.

To paste the Clipboard contents into an image

  1. From the Edit menu, choose Paste.

    The Clipboard contents, surrounded by the selection border, appear in the upper-left corner of the pane.

  2. Position the pointer within the selection border and drag the image to the desired location on the image.

  3. To anchor the image at its new location, click outside of the selection border.

To move the selection

  1. Position the pointer inside the selection border or anywhere on it except the sizing handles.

  2. Drag the selection to its new location.

  3. To anchor the selection in the image at its new location, click outside the selection border.

To copy the selection

  1. Position the pointer inside the selection border or anywhere on it except the sizing handles.

  2. Hold down the CTRL key as you drag the selection to a new location. The area of the original selection is unchanged.

  3. To copy the selection into the image at its current location, click outside the selection cursor.

To draw with the selection

  1. Position the pointer inside the selection border or anywhere on it except the sizing handles.

  2. Hold down the SHIFT key as you drag the selection.

    Copies of the selection are left along the dragging path. The more slowly you drag, the more copies are made.