Copy, Cut and Paste

The Copy, Cut and Paste commands in the Edit menu work in conjunction with the Layers facility. Whenever you copy or cut a selected image or part of an image and then use paste, the selection is pasted onto a new layer. The pasted selection will be slightly off-center, rather than superimposed on top of the copied selection.

  1. The Copy, Cut and Paste commands only become active after you have made a selection, in the normal way, using one of the selection tools (see Selections) or an option from the Selection menu (see Selection menu).

  2. After making your selection, click on either Copy or Cut in the Edit menu.

  3. Click on Paste in the Edit menu.

The selection is pasted onto a new layer, which automatically becomes the active layer.

Note that if you want to move a selected part of an image to another area on the same layer, you can’t just copy and paste. Instead, you should drag the Move arrow when the selection is in Transform mode (see Transform Image).