mafitd Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Can someone help me how to select the entire contents of the red box on the left without having to draw around it ? I tried various settings with the magic wand but no luck. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midora Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Did you try to select the white area using magic wand and then in a second step to invert the selection? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mafitd Posted March 31, 2021 Author Share Posted March 31, 2021 Can you explain please ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midora Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 if you click with the magic wand the white are it will select everything inside of the rectangle but not the graphic. If you invert this selection then the graphic will be selected. For sure you have to cut away everything outside of the rectangle but this is easy by using the rectangle select in Subtract mode (the third icon right to the rectangle select tool). Sorry, I can not attach images because I already reached the limit of my account. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSD Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Because the background is transparent, simply use Rectangle Select tool to select the content then Copy (Ctrl+C) and Paste into New Layer (Ctrl+Shift+V). You don't need to use Magic Wand in this case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Please do not post questions in a forum section clearly marked for plugin publishing. Moved to General Discussion Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 12 hours ago, mafitd said: Can someone help me how to select the entire contents of the red box on the left without having to draw around it ? Make a rectangular selection which includes all of the colored shape but does not go near the red borders. Switch to the Magic Wand tool (TIP: hit the S key four times) Hold down the CTRL key and make an additional selection between the red border and the previous selection. ...and you're done! Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mafitd Posted April 1, 2021 Author Share Posted April 1, 2021 @Rick Sorry. I have no idea how i posted to plug ins ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mafitd Posted April 1, 2021 Author Share Posted April 1, 2021 Thanks Ergo. That did it. I didn't want to use just the rectangle tool as i needed the borders spot on, but the finishing with Magic works great. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 Selections made by any of the Selection Tools can be chained together in this way Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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