Saving a selection

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Dave_Woodward

Feb 18, 2004

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Folks,

I realise that this should be easy, but I am certainly missing something.

I have a number of bitmaps that are identical other than the colours used. I need to select a complicated section on one of the bitmaps and then perform some changes to area selected. Thats obviously easy.

Now I want to select the same area on the next bitmap and make some changes to that as well, and so on. I’ve tried saving a selection on the first bitmap and then opening up the second and loading a selection but that’s clearly not the right way to do it, as you don’t even get the option.

Cheers

Dave

Don_McCahill

Feb 18, 2004

Save the selection as an alpha channel. Drag the alpha channel to the new image. Use Select/Load Selection to load a selection from the Alpha channel.

Thee_DarkOverLord

Feb 18, 2004

you can drag and drop your selection from one image to the next, you need to go to the channels tab next to the layers tab to find your selection

Alpha_Papa

Feb 18, 2004

Create an Alpha Channel – basically channel for storage.

Click the "Save Selection as Channel" button in your document. Double click the resulting black and white thumbnail and change "Color Indicates" to "Selected Areas" this will create a black mask (your selection) on a white background, the white background will effectively be invisible.

To reuse, load the channel by simply clicking the "Load Channel as Selection" button in the Channels pallete. Either drag the resulting selection to another document or drag the entire Alpha Channel over (in which case a mask will show). Simply load that mask as a selection in the second document’s Channel pallete as previously.

Your Alpha Channel will permanently save with any document it is part of for future recall.

Saving a selection

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