Epson Photo Plus - PhotoPlus Color Photo Scanner User's Guide download pdf (Page 114)

102 Manipulating Images

To paste into the current selection, press Shift+Ctrl+L or choose Paste>

Into Selection from the Edit menu. The Clipboard contents appear

centered in the currently selected region. (This choice is grayed out if

there's no selection, or if the active layer is a text layer.) This option is useful

if you’re pasting from one layer to another. Because the selection marquee

“follows” you to the new layer, you can use it to keep the pasted contents in

registration with the previous layer.

To duplicate part of the active layer on the same layer, press the Alt key and

click, then drag with the Move Tool. (Or if you're working with a selection

tool, press Ctrl+Alt and drag to duplicate.)

Changing image and canvas size

You probably know that image dimensions are given in pixels (think of pixels as

the "dots of paint" that comprise a screen image)—say, 1024 wide by 768 high. If

you want to change these dimensions, there are two ways to go about it, and

that's where image and canvas come into play.

Changing the

image size

(top example

opposite) means scaling the whole image (or

just

a selected region) up or down. Resizing

is actually a kind of distortion because the

image content is being stretched or

squashed.

Changing the canvas size (bottom example)

just involves adding or taking away pixels

around the edges of the image. It's like

adding to the neutral border around a

mounted photo, or taking a pair of scissors

and cropping the photo to a smaller size. In

either case, the remaining image pixels are

undisturbed so there's no distortion.

Note that once you've changed either the image size or the canvas size, the image

and canvas are exactly the same size again!

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