Moving, clipping, and rotating selections

You can move, clip, or rotate a selection. If you want to change the selection area, you can also move the selection marquee.

When you move a selection, you can leave the space empty or you can move a copy of the selection and leave the original unchanged. When you move a selection, it becomes a floating selection. When you perform a new action, Corel PaintShop Pro automatically promotes the floating selection to a new layer.

You can also float a selection, which creates a copy of the selection that you can move or modify without changing the original image. A floating selection temporarily rests above the image or layer on the Layers palette, and an icon indicates that the layer contains a floating selection. After you edit the floating selection, you can defloat it.

You can also move a selection to a separate layer. When you do this, the original selection contents are unchanged, and a copy of the selection becomes the new layer. You can edit this new layer without changing the original image.

Important! This command works on 16 million–color and grayscale images only. For more information about increasing the color depth of an image, see Working with colors and materials.

After making a selection, you can move the selection anywhere on the image, or off the canvas. If you expand the image window to show the off-canvas gray area, you can see the selection you moved. You can also clip a selection to remove the portion that is not within the image borders.

To move the selection marquee

Edit workspace 

You can also move the selection marquee by right-clicking and dragging with the Move tool .

To move a selected image area

Edit workspace 

To copy and move a selected image area

Edit workspace 

To float a selection

Edit workspace 

•	Choose Selections Float.

To defloat a selection

Edit workspace 

•	Choose Selections Defloat.

To promote a selection to a layer

Edit workspace 

2	Choose Selections Promote Selection to Layer.

To place a selection as a layer within another image, copy the selection, open the other image, and choose Edit Paste As New Layer.

To clip a selection to the canvas

Edit workspace 

2	Choose Selections Defloat.

3	Choose Selections Clip to Canvas.

To rotate a selection

Edit workspace 

1	Choose Image Free Rotate.

When you rotate a selection, the selection becomes a floating selection, and the original image remains unchanged.

You can also rotate a selection interactively by using the Pick tool . Before the rotation is applied, the selection is promoted to a layer.

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