User Guide

CHAPTER 8
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Editing and Retouching
To copy a selection:
1 Select the area you want to copy.
2 Choose Edit > Copy or Edit Copy Merged.
To copy a selection while dragging:
1 Select the move tool ( ) or hold down Ctrl
(Windows) or Command (Mac OS) to activate the
move tool.
2 Hold down Alt (Windows) or Option
(Mac OS), and drag the selection you want to copy
and move.
When copying between images, drag the selection
from the active image window into the destination
image window. If nothing is selected, the entire
active layer is copied. As you drag the selection
over another image window, a border highlights
the window if you can drop the selection into it.
To create multiple copies of a selection within an
image:
1 Select the move tool ( ) or hold down Ctrl
(Windows) or Command (Mac OS) to activate the
move tool.
2 Copy the selection:
• To copy the selection and offset the duplicate by
1 pixel, hold down Alt (Windows) or Option
(Mac OS), and press an arrow key.
• To copy the selection and offset the duplicate by
10 pixels, press Alt+Shift/Option+Shift, and press
an arrow key.
• Hold down Alt/Option and drag the selection.
As long as you hold down Alt/Option, each press
of an arrow key creates a copy of the selection and
offsets it by the specified distance from the last
duplicate.
Selection dragged to new image, and result
To paste one selection into another:
1 Cut or copy the part of the image you want
to paste.
2 Select the part of the image into which you want
to paste the selection. The source selection and the
destination selection can be in the same image or
in two different Photoshop images.
Source selection, and destination selection
3 Choose Edit > Paste Into. The contents of the
source selection appear masked by the destination
selection.