create layer from selection

drosenbe08132

Newbie Joined: Feb 13, 2012 11:14 Messages: 31 Offline

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Apr 12, 2019 14:17

In photoshop, you can create a layer from a selection of the current layer. Is there a way to do that in Photodirector. I would think that that is a common thing to do.

tomasc

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 25, 2011 12:33 Messages: 6464 Offline

Apr 12, 2019 14:42

With a photo showing go to the Layers module. You will now see a Layer button on the top left. Click it and a drop-down window gives you the different layers options. Duplicate is one of them. If you right mouse click on the Background button on the left side you can get some other options too,

drosenbe08132

Newbie Joined: Feb 13, 2012 11:14 Messages: 31 Offline

Apr 12, 2019 16:19

Quote With a photo showing go to the Layers module. You will now see a Layer button on the top left. Click it and a drop-down window gives you the different layers options. Duplicate is one of them. If you right mouse click on the Background button on the left side you can get some other options too,

Thanks for the reply, but that isn't what I asked.

I want to, for example, select the mouth of a face in a picture, create a new layer, of just the mouth, and then delete the mouth area from the original picture (eventually to to create a JibJab like effect in Powerdirector). I can't seem to figure out the steps to do that.

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PIX

Senior Contributor Joined: Sep 21, 2011 00:02 Messages: 2910 Offline

Apr 12, 2019 17:28

Hello drosenbe08132,

Welcome to the PhotoDirector forum

If you have a look at these combined/annotated screenshots from the Layers module, you'll find it's easy to achieve what you want.

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