Paste from clipboard and center

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dougleax
Jun 2, 2005
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When I paste from the clipboard onto a smaller document, the image puts both top left corners together.
How can I center the pasted image so when I scale down the pasted image it stays exactly in the center?

The drag and drop holding shift centers the image like I would like, but Shift and paste still lines up both top left corners.

I used copy merged so the drag and drop is not always useable.
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dougleax
Jun 2, 2005
Am I explaining this clearly?
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Pierre_Courtejoie
Jun 2, 2005
Yes.
I can’t think of a way to do it at paste time, but you can do it in a few clicks: After pasting, do a select all, switch to the move tool to click on the 2 align to center buttons
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Ol__Whozit
Jun 2, 2005
Different, but just as effective is Ctrl+’A’ to select all, Ctrl+’X’ to cut, then Ctrl+’V’ to paste, which will center your object.
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Pierre_Courtejoie
Jun 2, 2005
Maddy, dougleax asks for clipboard pastes, one can’t do that with your method, unless I missed something? I can’t replicate it… (I tried with printscreen?)

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