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The Clipboard
The clipboard is perhaps the most usefull tool of Babygimp. It is mainly
used for the following functions:
- saving intermediate versions of your image,
- merging images,
- colorizing an images similar to a sample (see the filters section).
Loading images to the clipboard
There are several ways to load an image to the clipboard:
- The menu function `Copy image to clipboard' saves the actual image to
the clipboard.
- The menu function `Load file to clipboard' will pop up a file selection
dialog.
- The submenu function `Exchange with image' exchanges the clipboard
entry with the current image (of course you must have an image in the
clipboard first).
- Select a rectangular region with the `Select Region' tool. `Cut' will
remove the selected region from the image and save it to the clipboard.
`Clip' will save the selected region to the clipboard without removing it
from the image.
- Call Babygimp twice. This will not create a second instance of
babygimp; instead the argument of the second call will be copied to the
clipboard of the first call.
The main purpose of the clipboard is to create new images from existing
ones. Example:
Starting with these originals
i could create this cool button
![[Example 3]](combine_example3.gif)
in less then 5 minutes. (The sky background came from a plugin based on ppmforge)
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