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Changing selected areas of a bitmap

Once you have selected part of an image in the Paint window with the Lasso or Marquee tool, you can change the selected area.

To reposition the selected area:

Move the cross hair inside the selected area (the cross hair becomes an arrow pointer). Drag the selected area.

To affect how the selected area behaves when you drag it, use the following key combinations:

| To make a copy of the selected area as you drag, Alt-drag (Windows) or Option-drag (Macintosh) the selection.
| To stretch the selection (Marquee tool only), Control-drag (Windows) or Command-drag (Macintosh) the selection.
| To stretch the selection proportionally (Marquee tool only), Control-Shift-drag (Windows) or Command-Shift-drag (Macintosh) the selection.
| To copy and stretch the selection (Marquee tool only), Control-Alt-drag (Windows) or Command-Option-drag (Macintosh) the selection.
| To constrain the movement of the selection to horizontal or vertical, Shift-drag the selection.
| To move the selection one pixel at a time, use the arrow keys.