You are perfectly right. Using the 'deformation' tool allows me to do fine
moving.

The only hitch is that my 12 mbytes files grows to 37 Mbytes in memory
during the process, and
when I return it to 2 colors the straight lines are not too good looking.

But this is the solution I was looking for. Many Thanks.

(Yes, sorry 'calc' is the French translation used for layers)

I am learning to use this program little by little. Some tricks are not
obvious, but
I like very much the scripting and the automated tools for color and
contrast.

--
Jean.paulo

"Kris Zaklika" <kzaklika@jasc.com> a écrit dans le message de
news:417951A3.E58627F6@jasc.com...
> "jean.paulo" wrote: 
colors 
>
> I don't know what "as new calc" means since this is not in
> the English version. It doesn't matter that the image is
> transformed to a higher color depth because the colors do
> not change.
> 
>
> I think you are using the word "calc" to mean "layer". If
> you pasted a selection correctly as a new layer, then
> everything outside the selection will be transparent.
> 
>
> After pasting as a new layer, invoke the Deform tool. Then
> move the layer with the mouse, or move it one pixel at a time
> with Ctrl-arrow keys, or 10 pixels at a time with Shift-Ctrl
> and the arrow keys.
> 
it 
>
> It's quite easy to do in PSP 8. You just need to learn a bit
> more about the program. The Deform tool lets you do some other
> operations like sizing, rotation, skew and so on which can
> improve the alignment you are trying to achieve. Once you
> have done everything you can merge all the layers and reduce
> the color depth to two colors if you really need that.
> 
part 
editing 
etc... 
selection 

"jean.paulo" wrote:
>
> You are perfectly right. Using the 'deformation' tool allows me to do fine
> moving.
>
> The only hitch is that my 12 mbytes files grows to 37 Mbytes in memory
> during the process,

This is trivially small for a graphics file.

> and
> when I return it to 2 colors the straight lines are not too good looking.

This will depend on what you have done and how you do the
color reduction. If you change the size of your image or
rotate it you will resample the original to create new
pixels from the original ones in the result image. This
causes mixing of the original colors. Simply moving a layer
without changing the size will not cause this to happen.
When you reduce the color depth to two colors use Nearest
Color and Weighted Palette. Prior to reducing color depth
you can use the Threshold filter to predetermine which
part of your image will be what color.

> But this is the solution I was looking for. Many Thanks.
>
> (Yes, sorry 'calc' is the French translation used for layers)
>
> I am learning to use this program little by little. Some tricks are not
> obvious, but
> I like very much the scripting and the automated tools for color and
> contrast.
>
> --
> Jean.paulo

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