Creating and moving a floating pixel selection

When you drag a marquee to a new location, the marquee itself moves. If you want to move, edit, cut, or copy a selection of pixels, you must first make the pixels a floating selection.

To create a floating pixel selection:

1. Make a pixel selection with a bitmap selection tool.
2. Do one of the following:
   • Hold down Control (Windows) or Command (Macintosh) and drag the selection using any tool from the Bitmap section of the Tools panel.
   • Select the Pointer tool and drag the selection.

To move a floating selection, do one of the following:

• Drag the floating selection with the Pointer tool or any bitmap selection tool.
• If a nonselection bitmap tool is active, hold down Control (Windows) or Command (Macintosh) and drag the floating selection.
• Use the arrow keys or Shift+arrow keys.

When you deselect the floating pixel selection or select any vector or web tool, the floating selection becomes part of the current bitmap object.