Photoshop: Copy and paste an image without trimming transparency

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sefiroths picture sefiroths · May 13, 2011 · Viewed 11.7k times · Source

I have an image fo this kind:

1000x1000 but only a portion of the image is opaque, think a filled circle on the left, other picels are transparent.

I want to copy/paste only a portion of the image with an area choosed by me:

I drag and drop the mouse so that part will be 400x100 but when i paste i have an image 300x76. photoshop has trimmed my image, but i want it with the border of the image choosed by me, i want that coordinates. preparing an image 400x100 blank and copying that image doesn't solve my problem because i must pan the image on the original position.

how can i copy/paste the image without trimming? thanks

Answer

Chuck Le Butt picture Chuck Le Butt · May 15, 2011

Your problem is because you're asking Photoshop to take into account an area that doesn't exist (it's transparent). You cannot "Copy" an area where nothing exists in Photoshop. Your only option is to place something (a colour) in the corners where the transparency exists, select your area, Copy Merged (using CTRL + SHIFT + C) and then delete the extra colour once you've pasted it.

There's no other way around it.

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