Matching Canvas to Selection

[jmalkavian]

Hi, I've been messing with photoshop for about 3 years and in all that time cannot figure how to get a canvas to match perfectly with a marqueed selection,IE: if i marquee a section of a picture and want to drag n drop it on a new canvas, the only way that i can do it is by guestimating the size of the marqueed selection and needless to say it's repetitive trial and error until i resize the canvas until it matches perfectly.

 

Surely there is a simple way to achieve this, i have looked at various tutorials however i find most/all tutorials don't answer the question directly but instead tend to ramble on about what different tools do and how well their new machine/version can do it instead of getting to the point which leaves me swamped with information that i don't need/want to know about and i end up just more confused than when i started and to top it off there is usually a mention of different ways to do things depending on which version of photoshop that you're using.

 

I think my version is: photoshop cs....as there is no number seen when it starts up and yes it is an old version, of that i am sure.

 

Or is there a way to find the size of the marqueed selection so as to know how big the new canvas needs to be?.

 

Any help would be appreciated, TY. TC.

[Ghogiel]

um.. crop tool?

 

Or I think you might want to just make your marque selection then ctrl+c, crtl+n, ctrl+v.

You will have a new canvas that is sized to what you just copied from within the marque and also what you just copied is also pasted into the new doc.

Edited July 14, 2011 by Ghogiel

[jmalkavian]

um.. crop tool?

 

Or I think you might want to just make your marque selection then ctrl+c, crtl+n, ctrl+v.

You will have a new canvas that is sized to what you just copied from within the marque and also what you just copied is also pasted into the new doc.

 

ctrl+c, ctrl+n, ctrl+v. = Works like a charm!!!... Ghogiel you are a "GEM!", although it doesn't paste it ...it makes a perfect size canvas ready to be drag an' dropped on to....for so long I've been doing it the hard way, this will save so much time. :happy:

 

I can't thank you enough, if there's any way that I can return the favor just give me a yell mate. :thumbsup: .TC.

[Ghogiel]

crop tool does the same thing more or less. except it doesn't create a new doc. It's just a rectangular marque selection, then rclick, crop, and it'll crop the canvas to the selection.

[jmalkavian]

crop tool does the same thing more or less. except it doesn't create a new doc. It's just a rectangular marque selection, then rclick, crop, and it'll crop the canvas to the selection.

 

Yep, you've done it again..."nice simple explanation" :thumbsup: ...will be handy for clip board shots etc.

 

I've never had any lessons before except these two from you...If your not a teacher...ya should be!.

 

Can't give ya any more kudos...but thanks again mate. TC.