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Rusty » Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:16 am
Gina, here is what it looks like....
Make your selection, see the marching ants; the selection is active...
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While that selection is active, hit Ctrl-J. That creates a new layer above wherever you were when you made the selection and the only thing on that layer is the selection.
OR... while that selection is active, key
Edit > Copy, create a new blank layer and key
Edit > Paste. It doesn't matter how you do it, the result is exactly the same and your layer stack looks like this...
- Select on Layer.jpg (153.26 KiB) Viewed 1695 times
I almost always use the "Ctrl-J Method" because it's so much faster. But, suppose you want to make your selection in one file and then put it on a layer in another file. In this case I would open the two files in the Edit Panel (
Window > Image > Tile), make my selection in one file (
Edit > Copy), switch to the other file, create a new blank layer and copy it with
Edit > Paste.
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I'm using PSE7 here, sure it's the same in PSE9.
Rusty