"paste selection" fits in new window, while it shouldn’t

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maarten_legene
Feb 27, 2004
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I’ve got a picture of 2000 X 4000 pix.
I select 1000 X 2000 pix out of it and copy the selection to the pasteboard. I open a new file which is only 800 X 1600
I paste the selection into that new file (window).

Now, in Photoshop 6 I was able to move the large paste around the smaller new window, to create the best composition (having more pix than the window is able to show). But in CS this has become impossible. Pasting means: all extra pix from the pasteboard will have been deleted.

I hate these "improvements" ! Really hope there’s a workaround !
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Dave Simpson
Feb 27, 2004
Not sure what you mean here. I move larger pictures within smaller windows ALL THE TIME with no problem.

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I’ve got a picture of 2000 X 4000 pix.
I select 1000 X 2000 pix out of it and copy the selection to the
pasteboard.
I open a new file which is only 800 X 1600
I paste the selection into that new file (window).

Now, in Photoshop 6 I was able to move the large paste around the smaller
new window, to create the best composition (having more pix than the window is able to show). But in CS this has become impossible. Pasting means: all extra pix from the pasteboard will have been deleted.
I hate these "improvements" ! Really hope there’s a workaround !
CW
Colin_Walls
Feb 27, 2004
Try this:

Do the copy.
Open new doc, accepting the default size.
Paste [which should fit perfectly].
Crop to 800×1600 [or whatever].

I don’t know why your previous method stopped working, as I would never have done it that way.
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Andrea_Topi
Feb 27, 2004
Works fine here, as always. Photoshop CS on WinXP. Pasting a clipboard image into a smaller canvas creates a new layer which extends around the artboard, and this layer can be moved around with the selection tool, thus "framing" the final composition. Flattening layers, then, creates the final "cropped" image at the desired size. Don’t know what’s happening to your PSCS, Marteen.
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Colin_Walls
Feb 27, 2004
Just wondering – is there a way that this is getting pasted onto the background layer [which could not be moved]?
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Andrea_Topi
Feb 27, 2004
Tried but couldn’t find that way, Colin. Pasting the image on a filled background or any other layer combination invariably creates a new layer above. Pasting on a transparent background, though (if you create a new file with a transp. back. then the back layer is called "layer1" and it’s actually unlocked) leaves a single layer, but the image pasted is still "floating" and you can move it around, as far as I can see.
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YrbkMgr
Feb 27, 2004
Unless you Paste Into…
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maarten_legene
Feb 28, 2004
Sorry, I forgot one essential step in my story. My excuse.

The essential step is:
When you have pasted the 1000 X 2000 pix image into the 800 X 1600 pix newfile, you should try to scale it to 80%.

In Photoshop 6 the whole 1000 X 2000 image should be scaled (so also the non-visable part of it), but now only the visable part (800 X 1600) is scaled and the rest is lost! So you can’t float around the 80% scaled image within the new window anymore.
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YrbkMgr
Feb 28, 2004
Does it appear on its own layer? Cant you press Ctrl-T and scale it from the options bar? Are you saying that if you DO press Ctrl-T that the bounding box is only the size of the canvas?
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maarten_legene
Feb 28, 2004
OK, thanks a lot. I should not start with "select all" again, because now it selects the new canvas only.

That’s the solution to the problem indeed.
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YrbkMgr
Feb 28, 2004
I should not start with "select all" again

Yep. That would do it. Glad you got it sorted.

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