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How to use selection brush tool to cut out an object from the background


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How to use selection brush tool to cut out an object from the background to edit,rotate, place it in another image. I can select what I want

to remove but I can't locate the "delete" button to finish. There is a delete button I can see, but it is "grayed out" so I can't. I thought selecting 

part of an image meant I can delete it...true?  I get that the image has to be "unlocked" first to do this

 

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Click the Delete key or Backspace key on your keyboard. Or use the menu, Edit > Delete.

Note that you need to be selecting from an layer that shows as a (Pixel) layer in the Layers panel. If it shows as (Image) you'll need to rasterize it first.

-- Walt
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Thank you Walt... great,I am newbee and I never learned how to type in the first place did not realize the keyboard delete was connected to program in that way and I thought

all images were pixels and therefore rasterized already rasterized,  thanks again Leland

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You're welcome.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1

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