Pipkin:
* Are you trying to move the selection itself (the marching ants) or the selected area (pixels) ?
* Can you copy the contents of the selection to a new layer using Ctrl+J ?
So we can try to replicate the problem to trouble-shoot, can you create a simple file and post a list of the steps leading up to the error.
Chris.
Thank you, Chris, for reply.
I meet the problem mentioned above only if ‘Auto Select Layer’ in ‘Move Tool’ was set to ON. I am afraid, I was incorrect and such behavior is normal?
It doesn’t behave that way for me Pip. I turned on autoselect, selected a layer by control clicking a lower layer, then when I clicked on the topmost layer with my mouse, I was allowed to drag it without an error message.
Feel like posting a screenshot? I’m sure there’s an explanation.
No, Chris, I want to move just the selection, not entire selected layer. See.
1. Standby. There are 3 layers and ‘Auto Select Layer’ is ON. I make a selection on the ‘background’ and want to clone it with Marquee Tool along with Ctrl+Alt.
2. I press Ctrl+Alt and try to make a move… But it draws a rectangle rather than to take the copy of selected part of image and move it 🙂
3. Now I’ve released a mouse and… nothing happened, only ‘backround’ became unselected in Layers Palette.
That’s all 🙂
That is expected behaviour.
Pressing the Crtl key changes any tool’s cursor into a temporary "Move" tool.
Use the Move tool on the background layer or on the transparent region of a proper layer (in other words, where there is nothing to "move") and it will simply draw out what looks like a temporary rectangular marquee.
want to clone it with Marquee Tool along with Ctrl+Alt.
What is it you are trying to do? If by "cloning" you mean "making a copy of the area inside your selection, then you need to go:
LAYER>NEW>LAYER_VIA_COPY
the shortcut for which is Ctrl+J. This will "jump" a copy of your selected area onto a new layer.
Does this help?
Chirs
And if you’re just moving the selection, no pixels, have the marquee tool active and put your mouse inside the selection, then, well, move it.
Thanks Chris, but Ctrl+J is not good idea when I need making a lot of copies of the selected region.
Let stop it. 🙂 I only must not forget to switch ‘Auto Select Layer’ to OFF when I have a few layers in order to have possibility of using Marquee+Ctrl+Alt combination for plural copying of the selected region.
But it is not so good deal that I have to pay attention on ‘Auto Select Layer’ setting when I just want to use Marquee or any other selection tool and copying.
Thank you very much!
Sincerely, Pipkin.
P.S.
And if you’re just moving the selection, no pixels, have the marquee tool active and put your mouse inside the selection, then, well, move it.
🙂 Thanks, I know.
Ah! I see what it is you are doing now!
Ctrl+Alt whilst the marquee tool is active allows you to copy the selection without creating a new layer for each. Leaving "Auto Select Layer" checked means the cursor will make the lower layers active if there is no pixel data in the current layer, hence the effect you described. So yes you are right, UNchecking it is a prerequisite.
It’s not a bug. Just a conflict between two shortcuts.
Another way would be to simply use Alt with the Move tool to copy the area by making a new layer each time. The advantage of this method is you can always alter the position of each layer before merging them once you are happy with the positioning.
Chris.
Thank you very much, Chris, for your assistance!
I’ve appreciated it highly.
