12-29-2024, 09:42 AM
(12-28-2024, 05:54 PM)james22 Wrote: The conventional copy command obtained by the free select tool makes a copy of the free select tool outline and what it encloses. Is it possible to copy the outline free select tool path only, move it to a new area, have the free select tool enclose some new material, and move the free select tool now with the new material back to sit over the original, exactly matching the original free select outline?
Maybe it already exists, but I don't know it's name!
Thanks in advance.
See Edit > Paste into selection: whatever is pasted is cut to the existing selection, so you can paste something wide than then selection. as far as I can tell, the pasted item is centered in the selection (in other words the centres of the bounding boxes of the target selection and the copied over item are made to coincide. But thing are complicated if you import from the same image because you need two selections.
If everything in in the same image, another solution is to create the selection mask over the target area, then use the Move tool in Move selection mode (red square icon) to move the selection mask over the copied area, then copy/paste, and move the floating selection over the target before anchoring.
But IMHO the real solution to this problem is to copy paste an imported area wider that the target, move it under the target layer, and then erase the target layer (eraser, layer mask, or selection+delete) to see the imported area though the hole.