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- <h2>Edit Menu</h2>
- <p>The Edit Operations allow for easy manipulation of the image history, the selected region of the image, the selection
- itself, and the clipboard. </p>
- <p>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 <a href="SelectionTools.html">Ellipse Select</a> 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.
- <a href="Effects.html">Effects</a> and <a href="Adjustments.html">Adjustments</a> will
- only affect the selected area as well.</p>
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- <h3>Undo </h3>
- <p>This undoes the most recent action that you've taken that affects the image, if any. This functionality is
- also available from the <a href="HistoryWindow.html">History Window</a>.</p>
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- <h3>Redo </h3>
- <p>This redoes the most recent action that you've undone, if any. This functionality is also available from
- the <a href="HistoryWindow.html">History Window</a>.</p>
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- <h3>Cut </h3>
- <p>You may use this to remove a selected portion of the active layer. You can select a portion of the layer
- by using the <a href="SelectionTools.html">Rectangle Select, Lasso Select, Ellipse Select</a>, or
- <a href="MagicWand.html">Magic Wand</a> 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.</p>
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- <h3>Copy </h3>
- <p>This is similar to the Cut command, except that the selected region remains on the active layer and the selection
- outline is not removed.</p>
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- <h3>Paste </h3>
- <p>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 <a href="MoveTools.html">Move Selected Pixels</a> tool will automatically be switched to. This
- will allow you to move, scale, or rotate the pixels into the desired location and orientation.</p>
- <p>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
- <a href="Image.html#CanvasSize">Image<b> → </b>Canvas Size</a> command so that you can make
- sure that what you are pasting will fit.</p>
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- <h3><a name="PasteInToNewLayer"></a>Paste in to New Layer </h3>
- <p>This is similar to Paste, except that it creates a new layer,
- makes it active, and then performs the Paste
- command.</p>
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- <h3>Erase Selection </h3>
- <p>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.</p>
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- <h3>Invert Selection </h3>
- <p>If there is a selected region, this will cause all pixels that are selected to be unselected, and vice-versa.</p>
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- <h3><a name="SelectAll"></a>Select All </h3>
- <p>This causes the entire canvas to be selected.</p>
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- <h3><a name="deselect"></a>Deselect </h3>
- <p>After you select this menu item, no pixels will be selected.</p>
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- <font color="#808080" size="1">Copyright <font face="Times New Roman">⌐ 2006 </font>
- Rick Brewster, Tom
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