Mallory Hays November 20, 2009
Feathering Selections; dragging and dropping a selection between documents; copying and pasting selections; paste into a selection. (p. 138-142)
Feather Selection:
· With a selection active, right click/ Control click in the document window and choose Feather (or choose Select, Feather).
· Enter a Feather Radius value. The higher the doc resolution, the wider you need to make the feather radius. Click OK.
Drag and Drop a selection between Documents:
· Open the source and target documents, and arrange the windows so they don’t completely overlap each other.
· In the source document, create a selection, then click a layer or the Background.
· Choose the Move Tool. Drag the selection into the target document window, and release the mouse where you want the pixels to be dropped. Adding Shift will place the selection directly in the center of the target document.
Copy and Paste a Selection:
· Click a layer on the background, then create a selection.
· Choose one of the following commands: Edit> Copy Edit>Copy Merged or Edit> Cut
· Click in any document window.
· Choose Edit>Paste
· The pasted pixels will appear in a new layer.
Paste into a Selection:
· Select an area of a layer.
· Choose Edit> Copy or Edit> Copy Merged
· Leave the same layer active or click a different layer, or click a layer in another document.
· Select the area that you want to paste the clipboard contents into.
· Choose Edit> Paste Into
