Dragging and dropping to copy between applications

The drag-and-drop feature lets you move selections from another application into LiveMotion, or from LiveMotion to other applications, such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, to bitmap graphics applications, and to word-processing applications.

You can drag and drop into LiveMotion any image file that can be placed. Depending on where you drop the image, LiveMotion does the following:

• Dropping an image onto a LiveMotion Composition window places the image, even if you drop it onto another object.
• Holding Control (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) when dropping an image onto a LiveMotion object replaces the object with the image.
• Dropping an image into the Composition window creates a new image object.
• Dropping an image onto an object layer fills that layer with a texture based on the image. See (Applying textures to layers.)
• In Windows 2000/NT^®, dropping an image into the gray application window area places the image in a new composition.
• Dropping text from another application into the LiveMotion composition creates a new text object.
• Dropping a LiveMotion file into a Composition window adds the entire contents as a group to the composition. (See Grouping objects.)
• Dragging an object from one LiveMotion composition to another creates a copy of the selection in the new composition.

To drag and drop artwork from LiveMotion to the desktop:

1. Select the artwork you want to copy.
2. Drag the selection onto the desktop.

In Windows, the selection is copied to the desktop as a Scrap file (metafile). In Mac OS, the selection is copied as a picture clipping (PICT). Later you can drag and drop these files into another file.

To drag and drop LiveMotion artwork into a Photoshop or image editor window:

1. Select the artwork you want to copy.
2. Open the Photoshop image into which you want to copy the selection.
3. Drag the selection to the Photoshop image and release the mouse button.