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Copy or move the contents of a marquee selection



When you use a selection tool to drag a marquee to a new location, the marquee moves, but not its contents. To copy or move the selected pixels, either use the Pointer tool  or hold down a modifier key while using any Bitmap tool.

If you hold down the modifier keys noted below, you can move and copy selections with the arrow keys. To move in 10-pixel increments, also hold down Shift.

Move the contents of a marquee selection

  1. Make a pixel selection with a bitmap selection tool.

  2. Do one of the following:

    • Using any tool from the Bitmap section of the Tools panel, hold down Control (Windows) or Command (Mac OS), and drag the selection.

    • Using the Pointer tool, drag the selection.

Copy the contents of a marquee selection

 Do any of the following:

  • Drag the selection with the Subselection tool .

  • Drag the selection with the Pointer tool, while holding down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS).

  • Drag the selection with any Bitmap tool, while holding down Ctrl+Alt (Windows) or Command+Option (Mac OS).

Note: When you use either procedure above, the moved or copied selection remains part of the current bitmap object. To create a bitmap from a pixel selection, complete the procedure below.

Insert a new bitmap by copying a selection

  1. Select an area of pixels, using a pixel selection tool.

  2. Do one of the following:

    • Select Edit > Insert > Bitmap Via Cut.

    • Select Edit > Insert > Bitmap Via Copy.

      A new bitmap object based on the pixel selection is created in the current layer, and the selected pixels are removed from the original bitmap object. In the Layers panel, a thumbnail of the new bitmap appears in the current layer, above the object from which it was cut or copied.