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Chapter 6: Advanced Photo Editing
Microsoft Digital Image Standard User’s Manual
Editing and Copying Selected Areas
Using the advanced selection tools helps you to isolate a very specific area of
a picture for editing or copying. For example, if a picture has generally good
lighting levels, but a person’s face in a picture is in dark shadows, you can make
a selection of just the face, and then adjust the brightness and contrast only in
the selected area. And with anti-aliasing and feathering the selection, your edits
to the selected area can look natural since the edited area will blend smoothly
with the surrounding pixels.
Copying, Cutting, and Pasting Selections
Advanced selection tools also allow you to cut out or copy part of an object
to create a new object. These techniques allow you to trim a hole in a picture
or create a new object that can be pasted in the same picture or in a different
picture.
To cut a hole in an object:
1. Make sure that the Stack appears in the workspace.
2. On the Stack, click the object you want to cut a hole in.
3. On the toolbar, click a selection tool, and then select part of the object.
4. On the Edit menu, click Cut
.
To copy and paste part of an object:
1. Make sure that the Stack appears in the workspace.
2. On the Stack, click the object you want to copy part of.
3. On the toolbar, click a selection tool, and then select part of the object.
4. On the Edit menu, click Copy
.
The selection is copied to the clipboard.
5. If you want to paste the selection onto a different picture, open that
picture so that it is on the canvas.
6. On the Edit menu, click Paste.
The selection becomes a new object on the Stack
.
Note: If you paste the selection onto the same picture that you copied it from,
the new object will be in the same position and may not look like a separate
object. But the new object will be visible on the Stack, and you can use the
object tool to move, resize, or rotate the new object.