Edit Menu

The Edit Operations allow for easy manipulation of the image history, the selected region of the image, the selection itself, and the clipboard.

An important thing to note about selected regions is that all drawing operations are clipped to remain within them. For example, if you use the Ellipse Select tool to select a circular region in the middle of the image, you will be unable to draw anything outside of that circle while the selection is active. Effects and Adjustments will only affect the selected area as well.

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• Undo

  This undoes the most recent action that you've taken that affects the image, if any. This functionality is also available from the History Window.

• Redo

  This redoes the most recent action that you've undone, if any. This functionality is also available from the History Window.

• Cut

  You may use this to remove a selected portion of the active layer. You can select a portion of the layer by using the Rectangle Select, Lasso Select, Ellipse Select, or Magic Wand tools. Once you perform the cut operation, that area of the layer is moved to the clipboard and replaced with transparent pixels. The current selection outline is also removed.

• Copy

  This is similar to the Cut command, except that the selected region remains on the active layer and the selection outline is not removed.

• Paste

  If there is an image in the clipboard, this command will allow you to paste it on to the active layer. The pasted pixels will then be selected and the Move Selected Pixels tool will automatically be switched to. This will allow you to move, scale, or rotate the pixels into the desired location and orientation.

  If the image being pasted is too wide and/or too tall for the current canvas size, you will be asked if you want to resize the canvas. This is a quick shortcut to the Image → Canvas Size command so that you can make sure that what you are pasting will fit.

• Paste in to New Layer

  This is similar to Paste, except that it creates a new layer, makes it active, and then performs the Paste command.

• Erase Selection

  This command erases the currently selected region of the active layer. All pixels that lie within the selected region are placed with transparency. This is similar to the Cut command, except that the selected pixels are not copied to the clipboard.

• Invert Selection

  If there is a selected region, this will cause all pixels that are selected to be unselected, and vice-versa.

• Select All

  This causes the entire canvas to be selected.

• Deselect

  After you select this menu item, no pixels will be selected.