Select > Clipboard > Paste

The Paste tool provides two options, Paste and Paste New.

Paste: Use the Paste command to place the contents of the Windows Clipboard into the active image.  You would use Paste, for example, to transfer part of one image into another.

Before you can execute the Paste command, you must have somehow placed valid image data on the Windows Clipboard (see the Copy command).  If there are no data on the Clipboard, the Paste command will not be active.  Image data can be pasted into any image class that Image-Pro supports.

Image-Pro will accept image data from other applications via the Clipboard as long as it is in Windows bitmap (BMP), Tagged Image File Format (TIF),  Device Independent Bitmap (DIB) or Windows' Picture form.  If you attempt to Paste non-image data (e.g., text or spreadsheet data) to an image window, you will receive an error message.

When you select the Paste command, Image-Pro will initially position the Clipboard data in the upper-left corner of the currently active ROI (or of the entire image if there is no active ROI).  Once added, you can click and drag the pasted image data to another location.  When you are happy with its position, double-click the left mouse button, or press the <Enter >key, to permanently set the Clipboard data into the image.  The Clipboard pixels will overwrite those at the specified position.

If the Clipboard image is larger than the destination image, it will be cropped along the bottom and right edges. Selecting another image before confirming the Paste operation (double-clicking or pressing <Enter>) cancels the Paste operation.

Note: There are a number of Paste options that affect the way in which image data, pasted from the Clipboard, is combined with the target image.  You can be set these options through the Options dialog box which is accessed by clicking on the File menu (located in the upper left corner of the application window) and then clicking on the Options tool. Click here for more information.

Paste New: Use the Paste New command to place the contents of the Windows Clipboard into a new image, which becomes the active image.

Before you can execute the Paste New command, you must have somehow placed valid image data on the Windows Clipboard (see the Copy command).  If there are no data on the Clipboard, the Paste command will not be active. 

The class of the new image will be the same as that of the original image.

Image-Pro will accept image data from other applications via the Clipboard as long as it is in Windows bitmap (BMP), Tagged Image File Format (TIF), Device Independent Bitmap (DIB) or Windows' Picture form.  If you attempt to Paste non-image data (e.g., text or spreadsheet data) to an image window, you will receive an error message.

If a nonrectangular ROI is copied into the Clipboard, Image-Pro uses its bounding box for the new image.