Blending images into a background

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Steven Acevedo
Jun 9, 2004
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This has been asked before but I ask it anyway.

I’m having a hard time putting cut out images into another picture. I use the pen tool in Photoshop CS and then I copy it but the outline only appears in the other image after I’ve hit Ctrl +v. What could I be doing wrong?
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Erik.D
Jun 9, 2004
"Steven Acevedo" wrote in message
This has been asked before but I ask it anyway.

I’m having a hard time putting cut out images into another picture. I use the pen tool in Photoshop CS and then I copy it but the outline only appears in the other image after I’ve hit Ctrl +v. What could I be doing wrong?

I am not sure what your problem is. Ctrl +v is ‘copy’ isn’t that what you want then? What exactly do you mean with ‘to cut out in another picture’. Please describe a bit more what you want to do and why you think you should not use Crtl+V.

Let me put it like this: If I have a picture of which I want to copy a part into another picture then this is what you do:
select the part you want to copy. Hit Ctrl-c. Go to the other picture and hit Ctrl-v
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Mike Russell
Jun 9, 2004
Steven Acevedo wrote:
This has been asked before but I ask it anyway.

I’m having a hard time putting cut out images into another picture. I use the pen tool in Photoshop CS and then I copy it but the outline only appears in the other image after I’ve hit Ctrl +v. What could I be doing wrong?

The pen tool creates a path, which is different from a selection. If you copy and paste the path, it will simply show up as an outline in the image that you paste into.

Press alt-return to convert a path to a selection, or use the lasso tool to create the selection.
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Steven Acevedo
Jun 9, 2004
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 20:52:23 +0200, "E.D."
wrote:

Let me put it like this: If I have a picture of which I want to copy a part into another picture then this is what you do:
select the part you want to copy. Hit Ctrl-c. Go to the other picture and hit Ctrl-v

Only the outlined silhouette of the image I’ve copied appears and not the image itself after it’s been copied into the other picture.
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Hecate
Jun 10, 2004
On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 19:26:14 GMT, Steven Acevedo
wrote:

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 20:52:23 +0200, "E.D."
wrote:

Let me put it like this: If I have a picture of which I want to copy a part into another picture then this is what you do:
select the part you want to copy. Hit Ctrl-c. Go to the other picture and hit Ctrl-v

Only the outlined silhouette of the image I’ve copied appears and not the image itself after it’s been copied into the other picture.

You’re copying the path rather than the image. See the manual on pen tool and work paths.

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