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Hence, i came here for help. You must have something better to do with your time then to troll.

lol, yes i know. In reality it doesnt matter what i wanted to do with the selection, cut it out, copy it, paint over it, nada. That was not the point! The point was even though the selection was made, it did not select that area, but selected the whole image. Period.

yes i wanted to copy and paste several of the same one, or duplicate the copies.

OH, i didnt rasterize it, i just went into pixel mode, thinking that rasterized it. OK! Thank you so very much.

Thats it. I have a png image of several different images on it. I want to cut out each one and put it in a separate layer. How do i do that? I have tried the lasso, to quickly circle one, and then copy and paste it, but it copies the whole image, not just my selection. What is up with that? Ok thanks.

have not watched the vid yet, so will after i finish eating. I do have pub, i just never use it, lol. but what you showed was so easy i will use it for this type of construction! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Oh i didnt watch the video, to tell the truth at the time i didnt realize it was a video, i thought it was a pic. Yeah, like i said before i was not centered! I just watched it, and realize you are in the publisher, not the designer. So i never use the pub, lol, only the designer and photo if i have to because its not available in the designer. Thank you so much, i get it! Its much easier in the publisher!

Ok this is the tut i followed: and that worked fine yesterday, i went to bed and this afternoon, i did it on the next image. and when i press the delete key it deletes everything! what???? I did it 3 times starting over and yeah now it doesnt work at all. Here is a copy of the file. Its left at the point you hit the delete key. What am i doing wrong? its not difficult. wth.afdesign

I think i used the beta and it worked ok, but i cant remember. I got so frustrated i stopped working on my project, iirc. Good luck and thank you.

I use a win 10 computer, how do i do a screen recording? er what app? Seems i investigated this before, but i cant rem now if i found anything, other than using my phone to record the screen lol.

Exact workflow? drop an image. Resize it to much smaller size using the select pointer. Now create the circle shape. Now set the image to curves. Now drag the image into the circle, at this moment, what you see is a circle cut from the 'un-sized' image, not from the resized image. The fix is to save the resized image, and use it instead, adding in more steps. Does this help? Oh wait, lol sorry, above is how i ended up doing it. Later in the forum they explained how to do the intersection. Ok, so after resizing the image and turning to curves, you move the circle over the area you want to see, and hit intersect. At that point, if gives you the 'un-resized' image in the circle, which shows as much larger of course, and in the wrong area. It should be intersecting with the image you see. So, im guessing it should rasterize the image, and make it a curve again and then intersect with it. Just a new subroutine needs to be added, for resized images. does that help? er is that what you are looking for?

Whooooooosh! right over my head? a picture frame? I read this twice, perhaps im not awake enough or centered to understand what you are saying, but it sounds like yes convert to curves, then no do not convert to curves. ... the clipboard trick? is that the copy and paste it in? I dont know that either. I would love to understand what you are saying, be in your head so to speak. Thank you very much, i will ponder this more while i await.

I followed this from a question i asked here on the forum, it worked, er did the intersection, but it used the original and not the smaller resized image i was looking at. Please fix this? its an important function. It wastes creative time to resize the image, save it, then bring it back in to do the intersection. Starting with a pixel layerCopyPaste special/DIBConvert to curvesAdd shape aboveSelect shape and image layersBoolean intersect

Yep i did it and it worked great, thank you. The only thing is, i resized the image to a smaller size, and when i cut out the bit, it was in the wrong area and very large. It cut from the original, not the resized one i was using. Interesting? pain in the neck, lol. so you must resize, then save and bring it in again. poo. But it worked so yeah!

Thanks, i thought i tried this and it didnt work, ill try it again, as obviously it must work lol

Yes i know the image isnt a shape, thats why i called it a jpg. Ill watch the video, is it the same as the first response?

This is what i ended up doing, the last line, your favorite way

I dont know what to call it. But, if i take a jpg and then draw a circle over the jpg with no color, and then select both and hit intersect, the full image vanishes, I would hope that what was inside the circle of the jpg below, i would see. But no, nothing just a white circle. So, can anyone tell me how to cut out shapes in this odd software product? Thank you.

You would think in 2023 this would be a simple task. yet in this crazy software it is not. Grouping doesnt work. geometrics add doesnt work, no flatten or combine layers in the menu for of the items. Really? create the error again? sure. drop a jpg on the mat, copy paste it and slide the top one over a bit. now you want to adjust some attributes of both of them at the same time, easy right? wrong. Cant combine them or flatten the two layers into one. Group them and change attributes and it changes only one not both? what? I swear a couple weeks ago i could do this, not not.

Um, I may not understand, but if you group them then layer -> new adjustment whatever. It changes all the layers in the group.

They may not see this, maybe post it here in bugs ?

I dont know, it seems when i do the ctrl click on the layer that it makes a mask when i delete parts of the image. I dont want a mask i just want to delete. There is something very wrong with this software!

I will look at it, thank you for the info. Yes i did see that area was in the marching ants and wondered why and how that happened. Thats when i just closed it all down and started again. This last time i was editing i just started over, trying to get it done and move on. I have like 150 pages to go though. I looked at the link, and saw this To create a pixel selection from a layer: On the Layers panel, click the chosen layer's thumbnail while pressing the . interesting it cut off 'ctrl key' part. I did not know that how you have to select a layer in the pixel mode. Im sitting here with a dumfounded expression on my face! Never did i expect that! But you dont say why the software named my exported layer in the layers panel!!! i want it to remain named what i have it. It has no right to do that. Also while you are there? that bounding line in the image is the art board right? why is it that shape? it was never like that before the last update, it was a square, or rectangle. Now its that goofy shape. its very distracting.

0 I had selected the image by clicking on it in the layers panel THATS THE POINT, yet it wasnt selected? but all of them? That clearly is a bug. After using this software for doing the same thing over and over, it gets lost and goes off on its own. That is a bug. I dont change anything from working on one page to the next, it does it all by itself. I dont know how to record my screen to show you, hence this file. It got the way it is all by itself. And why is it naming my layers? I did not tell it to name my layers !!!!

you know there is seriously something wrong with this software. Its all over the place. I pulled the top layer off to the side, to edit the layer underneath, then saved that layer then try to pull the layer from the side back over the edited layer. Now to find that layer thats on the side, i notice it has named and moved the layer i just saved to a different layer. WHAT? WHY? I dont want this! now i scan up to select the layer on the side, and find it and select it in the layer panel, then drag it over to its previous position. And what happens? its somehow moved other windows over? or i dont know im zoomed in, there is some long blue line on the left side of it dont have a clue zoom out and all the pages are inside a blue lined box what?, and if i try to send it backwards under the layer i just edited, nothing happens! who knows whats going on now? i dont. You know, this is all wrong, and not what i expected when i purchased it. No thank you., craper 2.afdesign