User Guide

Chapter 5: Painting And Image Editing
To paste into a selection:
1. Place an object or selection on the Clipboard by choosing Edit | Copy or Edit | Cut.
2. Make a selection in an image (or a channel mask), and choose Edit | Paste Into. The Clipboard
contents appear in the selection.
3. You can drag the pasted item or press the arrow keys on the keyboard to move it, to display
the areas you want to see. When you finish adjusting the selection, deselect it to merge it
into the image.
Object with a
symbol fill ink
Feathered selection Object pasted into
selection
Floating and moving selections
You can move and manipulate a selection without affecting the original image by making it a floating
selection.
To float a selection and fill behind it with the background color, hold down Alt and choose
Image | Select | Float.
When a selection is floating, it sits on an invisible plane above the original image. When you type text
in an image, or paste an object from the Clipboard, Canvas makes the text or pasted item a floating
selection.
Moving a selection that is part of the original image creates a floating selection, but also leaves
behind an area filled with the background color.
To float a copy of a selection:
Make a selection in an image and choose Image | Select | Float.
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