Selection and move tools
Isolate pixels on the active layer, then move, copy, cut, paste, delete, or crop them.
Rectangle select
Select pixels inside rectangular bounds.
- Choose Rectangle select or press M.
- Drag from one corner of the area to the opposite corner.
- Release to select every pixel position inside the bounds.
The editor switches to Move automatically. Choose Done in the context bar when you want to clear the selection.
Lasso select
Trace a freehand selection around pixels.
- Choose Lasso select.
- Press and trace around the pixels you need.
- Release to close the area and create the selection.
Lasso preserves the traced mask for move, copy, cut, and delete. If the path contains fewer than three points, the editor creates a rectangular selection between the press and release positions.
Magic wand
Select a contiguous region of matching colour.
- Choose Magic wand or press W.
- Click inside an area of one exact colour.
Magic wand selects one connected region through top, bottom, left, and right edges. It does not select diagonally connected pixels or every occurrence of the colour across the layer.
Move layer content
Reposition selected pixels or active-layer content.
Move a selection
- Create a Rectangle, Lasso, or Magic wand selection.
- Move activates automatically.
- Drag the selected pixels, then release to commit.
Move layer content
Without a selection, choose Move or press V, then drag. The editor finds all non-transparent content on the active layer and moves it as one area.
Moving cuts pixels from the source. Copy and paste first if you want a duplicate. Movement is constrained to the current canvas bounds.
Copy, cut, paste, and delete
- Cmd/Ctrl+C copies selected active-layer pixels.
- Cmd/Ctrl+X copies and clears the selected pixels.
- Cmd/Ctrl+V pastes the editor's internal pixel clipboard.
- Delete or Backspace clears selected pixels.
The internal pixel clipboard is separate from your device's image clipboard. Transparent clipboard pixels do not erase the destination. On a fixed canvas, Image > Crop to selection crops every layer and frame to the selection's rectangular bounds.