Copy, paste and adjust?

John Ings <nodamned@spam.org> wrote in
news:2pllgvo99ci1rnf6uohjeonou2g1mvfajg@4ax.com:

> I hope denizens of the group will welcome a fugitive from Corel's
> PhotoPaint!
>
> I have started up the learning curve with respect to Photoshop 7 and
> so far I like what I see. There is so far only one utility I miss and
> I suspect that it's there but i just haven't found it yet.
>
> In PhotoPaint I can select an area and copy it, then paste it at
> another location. Photoshop does this, no problem. PhotoPaint however
> allowed me to then adjust the pasted area. I could change its size and
> angle, even flip it horizontally or vertically. So far I haven't found
> a way to do this in Photoshop, and it's one of the things I need to do
> most often.
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction?

PS pastes into a new layer. Unless you flatten it, the standard way of
applying those changes to the new layer should work.

Are you confused by the fact that you must re-select what you have just
pasted in order for most of these to work, perhaps?

On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 15:05:56 GMT, Eric Gill <ericvgill@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Are you confused by the fact that you must re-select what you have just
>pasted in order for most of these to work, perhaps?

Yes, that was it. PhotoPaint leaves you in a complete transform mode
but Photoshop only allows you to move the selection. You have to go to
Edit>Transform to get the rest.

Thank you. I'm working my way through McClelland's book and would have
twigged to that eventually, but newsgroup pointers speed up the
process.

John Ings <nodamned@spam.org> wrote in
news:hdslgv05utk0vpl2c2n4f3b0t8jdn9qrte@4ax.com:

> On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 15:05:56 GMT, Eric Gill <ericvgill@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Are you confused by the fact that you must re-select what you have just
>>pasted in order for most of these to work, perhaps?
>
> Yes, that was it. PhotoPaint leaves you in a complete transform mode
> but Photoshop only allows you to move the selection. You have to go to
> Edit>Transform to get the rest.
>
> Thank you. I'm working my way through McClelland's book and would have
> twigged to that eventually, but newsgroup pointers speed up the
> process.

Just to be clear - I wasn't criticizing you. I'm not sure why PS deselects
something you have just pasted. I dunno how everyone else feels, but that
seems pretty counterintuative.

Yes, it is a a bit counterintuitive, however, I usually just hit ctrl-A
immediately after pasting and right click to transform. Almost second
nature now.

AndY
http://crimespree.ca/


> Just to be clear - I wasn't criticizing you. I'm not sure why PS deselects
> something you have just pasted. I dunno how everyone else feels, but that
> seems pretty counterintuative.