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Hi, I have Affinity Publisher. I added an image to my document using Place Image Tool.

Now I want to clone out part of the image. I want to keep only a round section of the image and leave the rest out. So, I am looking for some kind of a selection tool that allows me to select that section and drag and drop it to the document. I hope that makes sense. How can I do this? Are there any tools?

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You could use the shape tool to draw a circle or oval and from the layers panel right-click on the circle layer and select Mask to below.

 

Shape tool to draw circle.
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This is the result
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Right clicking on the ellipse icon in the layers panel will get you this context menu
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18 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

You could use the shape tool to draw a circle or oval and from the layers panel right-click on the circle layer and select Mask to below

 

That doesn't work for me. When I mask the shape layer, the whole image disappears. See:

 

NOTE: I also want the rounded section to show and to remove the hand part. I want to show only the mirror.

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Add a fill colour to the ellipse.

 

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2 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

Add a fill colour to the ellipse.

 

Worked like a charm. Thank you very much! 😍

Will I be able to do something similar with the pend tool because that mirror is not perfectly roundish... So I would like to trace the path that I want to show.
 

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To get a perfect circle hold down shift as you drag out the shape.

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Did you try tracing your shape/path with the pen tool, giving it a fill, then using Mask to Below as previously advised?

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Select the circle, Convert to Curves, use the Node tool to modify the shape.

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