How do you cut out exact figures?

Question

When I use the lasso tool to carve out a figure and paste it in some other application I get the the figure I cut embedded in a white box. How do I just cut and paste only the figure?

Answer 1

Thanks that worked!
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:31:25 -0600
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To: [email protected]
Subject: How do you cut out exact figures?
System clipboards can be finicky, to say the least.
Also which operating system and application do you want to paste into?
The following may help:
1. With your selection active around your object, right click inside the selection.
    In the menu choose New Layer via Copy. (makes a new layer with just your
    selected object)
2. Right click on the new layer in the layers pallete and choose Duplicate Layer.
    In the dialog box, where it says document choose new from the drop down menu.
    You can name it or not. Click ok.
3. A new document should be created with just that layer.
4. Depending on how big the document is, you could use the Rectangle Marque Tool
   (M on the keyboard) and draw a selection box around your object and then go to
   Image>Crop, then Select>Deselect.
5. Save your image as a PNG file. File>Save As and choose png from the drop down.
    It should say File must be saved as copy, thats fine.
6. Open or insert your png into the application of choice.
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