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Unusual behaviour with Copy/Paste [in SC]

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tomos:
I select part of an image, copy, and paste it elsewhere in the same image (png):

a)
#1. the quality is not as sharp as originally - it's quite blurry actually.
#2. I do notice that, if I click and drag over an area including the pasted bit, that it momentarily shows as sharp as the original.
#3. if I view the image elsewhere (viewer/photoshop), the pasted part is not sharp
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#2 above makes me think that the quality of the paste could possibly be made as good as the original image (?)

b)
There is unusual behaviour when cropping the image cuts part of the pasted clip - *all* of the pasted clip continues to show in SC. The thumbnail correctly shows this pasted part cropped, and it also shows correctly in other viewers I tried.
Which seems okay, but if something is being cropped e.g. for privacy reasons, I presume that if I can see it in SC, then others would be able to see it in SC or possibly elsewhere (?)

mouser:
Ok so let's see what light we can shed here:

When you paste an image onto another image in screenshot captor, you are creating a "bitmap object" that floats on top of the image, which can be resized, moved, deleted, etc.

The fact that the pasted image is an object explains the odd behavior you are seeing regarding cropping, etc.

Now the blurriness -- that may be my code antialiasing the bitmap object when it shouldn't -- i will look into that.

How to avoid the oddities you are encountering?  After pasting the bitmap, and getting it exactly how you want it, go to the Objects menu and choose to "flatten all objects to background".  This will merge in the pasted image into the main one.  All future cropping will proceed as you expect -- though note that you will no longer be able to move/scale the pasted object.

Let me know if it still seems blurry after you merge to the background.

tomos:
How to avoid the oddities you are encountering?  After pasting the bitmap, and getting it exactly how you want it, go to the Objects menu and choose to "flatten all objects to background".  This will merge in the pasted image into the main one.  All future cropping will proceed as you expect -- though note that you will no longer be able to move/scale the pasted object.

Let me know if it still seems blurry after you merge to the background.
-mouser (January 28, 2015, 08:19 PM)
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ah, very good - that sorts any privacy worries anyway :up:

But it is still blurry when flattened - does look like anti-aliasing

mouser:
ok i shall try to fix that.

mouser:
that sorts any privacy worries anyway
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the full bitmap object you paste can only be found in the extra .objects file anyway; if you shared the png file it would only contain what you can see in the png.

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