COPY AND PASTE ITEMS - CAN THEY BE EDITED IN PSP PRO X6 ?

[brucet]

Simply go to the top left of the tool bar. You will see a hand and an arrow. Select the arrow. You can then use the handles to resize and drag your item anywhere.

Regards

[RadioRollins]

Here is a quick sample of how I do what I do

https://vimeo.com/206486396

[JoeB]

because you can put the object where you want in layer mode

If this was supposed to be a reply to someone else's reply they you should have quoted that post so we could understand what your reply meant in the context of what you were replying to.

You are making it very difficult for people to help you because you have failed to explain, in detail, exactly what you are doing and how you are doing it.

What are these "objects" you keep referring to that you want to move around and/or edit? Where are you getting these objects from? How are you adding these objects to the original background you are starting with?

You posted 2 images on this forum. The first one looks like a completed CD cover front image. The second one looks like it's a square template you are working on to produce the completed first image. The second image shows what look like various components, consisting of a picture of Bryan and Vicky, a frame missing a part at upper left, and some text. Where did you get these components from? In what form are they placed on that bottom image - as layers, as something else? They should be individual layers. Then the picture can be resized larger so it fits as in the first image. The text layer then can be resized smaller and moved so that it fits where it now appears in the first image. There should also be part of a frame to fill in the missing part, also on its own layer.

Everything I've written in the previous paragraph is what would be considered a "detailed" explanation. That's the kind of detail we need from you if you want your questions to be understandable enough to get useful help.

[RadioRollins]

C A N ' T

[RadioRollins]

SEE THE VIDEO I POSTED

[Cassel]

If you make a selection and paste anything INTO A SELECTION, then it is automatically flattened onto the active layer.
If you insist in doing that, then you have to create a new layer (which will be blank) BEFORE you paste INTO A SELECTION.

But if you PASTE AS A NEW LAYER, it will be on its own layer and using the Move tool (M), then you can move it anyplace you want with your cursor.

[hartpaul]

Ahh finally. After looking at that video 4-5 times and stopping often to try and read the text showing what you are doing I get what you are complaining about.
Your problem lies with a misvconception of what layers can do and what the pan tool does.

You have shown in your video how you can copy and paste as a new selection or as a new transparent selection and the pasted image remains attached to the cursor and so you can move it quickly around the screen.

You finish with pasting as a new layer and then demonstrate that with the Pan tool (hand) you cannot move the pasted image. Of course you can't , that is not what the pan tool is intended for.

Look below the pan tool and you will see a north west pointing arrow . This is the Pick tool and with this selected you can move those words around the screen AND resize the image as well. Try it and welcome to copy and paste as new layer. (You can also shear images and change the perspective but that is another story) .

Associated with the Pick tool is the Move tool (4 small arrows pointing to the cardinal compass points) and with this you can move pictures words around but not resize them.

I hope this opens up to you a whole world of new possibilities with your manipulation of images for covers.

[LeviFiction]

Technically "Paste As Transparent Selection" creates a floating selection layer. You can just promote that selection to its own layer. You can also use tools like the magic wand tool to select the text before copying it into the new image. Then you don't have to worry about pasting as transparent selection and promoting the layer. You can just copy and paste it in.

Here's a video showing you both methods. And explaining a little bit about how "Paste as transparent Selection" works.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8FlFL ... ZRanM/view

[JoeB]

I would also add that using Paste as Transparent Selection is usually not the best method of separating a background color from the desired object (in the OP's case, making the white background the transparent area with the text being selected to keep). It works OK if the background color and the object are absolutely distinct colors. But if there is anything like anti-aliasing around the desired object then you'll usually end up with a small edge of the background showing around the desired object. Better to select the desired object, adjust that selection as necessary, as well as feathering and anti-aliasing, to ensure you have removed all of the undesired background, then copy and paste as new layer. JMHO.

[RadioRollins]

THANK-YOU Hart Paul for getting it.

Here is a video of the program that ONLY does CD's and DVD's I wish what I showed you what I am doing could be done THIS simple. So I'm going to
guess and say corel CAN'T do this

https://vimeo.com/206584494

[RadioRollins]

THANKS LeviFiction

I guess by not having proper tools for 10+ years (Joe B) I have had to do numerous things to make what I want to use to not have anything but the object to copy and paste.
I have done the wand and if it doesn't grab the object or text correctly, it does have an outline of the color that is surrounding the text and in the transparent mode, shows the outline especially if you blow it up to see closer. I will try to see if i can learn to do the way the video shows (at least some texts) BUT can you do the same with a picture as well ??

I guess the way I copy and paste any object (as you see in my video) is cause I have no way of knowing what I am gonna do to the item I selected...kinda like painting. Unless I know where it is going, The way I have seen layers work, this makes the most sense to me.

IF this video is HOW you are to do layers in my way, then I guess it will be something new in how to do it differently.

[JoeB]

I guess by not having proper tools for 10+ years (Joe B) I have had to do numerous things to make what I want to use to not have anything but the object to copy and paste.
I have done the wand and if it doesn't grab the object or text correctly, it does have an outline of the color that is surrounding the text and in the transparent mode, shows the outline especially if you blow it up to see closer. I will try to see if i can learn to do the way the video shows (at least some texts) BUT can you do the same with a picture as well ??

Using any selection tool to isolate specific objects works just as well for pictures as they do for text or any object. Because colors in images are usually not simple, sharply defined color with only sharp, horizontal and vertical edges, automatic selection tools like the Magic Wand need to be adjusted using various tool options to compensate for the gradations of colors and for jagged edges caused by none vertical/horizontal lines. (Note that vector objects don't suffer from that issue). Editing the selection of the desired object by decreasing the selection size is one way to help cut out the unwanted background color edge around the object, and feathering/anti-aliasing adjustments help to smooth edges and also help the object blend better into the background on which it is pasted. In PSP or any other graphic editor you will simply have to learn how to use these adjustments to fine tune your selection to achieve your desired results. There are lots of tutorials on the internet that can help with that learning process.

I guess the way I copy and paste any object (as you see in my video) is cause I have no way of knowing what I am gonna do to the item I selected...kinda like painting. Unless I know where it is going, The way I have seen layers work, this makes the most sense to me.

IF this video is HOW you are to do layers in my way, then I guess it will be something new in how to do it differently.

I see you are using Nero Cover Designer. I watched an online video tutorial introducing the use of Cover Designer at this link:

http://www.nero.com/eng/show-tutorial.php?tut=MTg5

First, I would say that the way it works is "basically" the same concept as using layers in PSP. In Nero each element is called an Object. In PSP we place each of the objects on their own Layer so that they can be manipulated individually.

Second, PSP can be used to create any of the CD or DVD covers/inserts, or anything else that can be created by Cover Designer, and PSP offers many more tools that allow a person with creative instincts much more flexibility than that offered by Cover Designer.

But third, no standalone graphic editor (like PSP) that I'm aware of will make it as simple to create a basic CD/DVD cover/insert as Cover Designer or any of the other programs dedicated simply to that task. That's because that dedicated software offers basic step-through template menus that you then fill in with the requested information. So they provide a simplified process for a specific task but at the expense of more flexibility and creative options.

Using only PSP,I have created at least many hundreds of DVD case covers for a wide variety of videos and CD covers/inserts, as well as the graphics for burning to the label side of Lightscribe and other printable DVDs. I have never used the templates of a program dedicated to those purposes for creating the graphics because - in my experience anyway - they don't allow the creative flexibility I need or want, and often don't produce the best final output. So there's no doubt PSP can do all that your Cover Designer can do, and more. Just takes more of a learning curve.

[RadioRollins]

Unfortunately the way NERO works isn't the way any photo program I have found. I don't need to make any CD/DVD covers, as they are small in size, BUT when you need to make stuff 5-10 X the size, that is where you need a real photo program. I still have no idea how to get stuff in the layering part as the video i was shown earlier, as that is past the point of getting to that point in the video. So since I can't figure that out, I guess now I need to know where to start to add stuff the way I want to, and not be limited to what I am doing. I guess the main thing is that when I create anything, I wish I could fix just something I did in the project halfway through. So since I am a self teacher, I need to find out how to get to the layer part to make stuff work in the layer part I want to do.

And JOE B I use programs to cut out anything by drawing all around it to make it naturally masked...no background to paste if you look at the first pic in this thread. ALL cut around the band and it fits easily cause when background is the same color as the subject, there is no way you can use the smart cut or the magic tool whatsoever. it can''t define what you want.

Here is original image...not easily outlined due to smoke and other factors...


After by coloring outline. NOT the best thing to do, but from my experience it isn't easily to take this from original and get this cropped version.