: How to export a layer without cropping my entire image I often take screenshots, but then only want to export a portion of the screenshot instead of the entire thing. I know I can crop the

@Sent7350415

Toggle the visibility of the other layers by clicking on their eye in layers panel and save or export the visible layer.

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@Sent7350415

Previously to take a screen capture of your monitor use the print screen button on your keyboard and to capture the contents of a single window select it and hit ALT+PrintScreen

To save a screenshot of just a portion of your screen use the Snipping Tool. THis is freeware that comes with windows or microsoft gives it away from their site.

With Snipping Tool installed get your content up on your screen and open snipping tool. Select "New Snip" then draw a rectangle around the content you want.

There are pens to draw on your snip, very useful.
You can then save, copy or send your snip.

The save options allow .JPG and .PNG .GIF or .HTML.

To snip a picture on a Mac using your keyboard is quite simple, you hold the "Command, Shift and 4" together and then select what you want to do a screen shot of.

The fact is that the Mac came out with a "snipping tool" app before Windows did.

OS X comes with an app called Grab (as in "screen grab"), in your Utilities folder. It will let you do screen shots with your mouse instead of having to memorize the shortcuts. Just click the Capture menu and you will have the commands Selection, Window, Screen, and Timed Screen.

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@Sent7350415

Can't think of a way to just save a layer in a picture (could be done with a script...). But there is a much more efficient way than your current one:


Make layer active
Select>All, Edit>Copy, Edit>Paste as>New image
File>Export


Which, with the standard shortcuts, is Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+Shift+V, Ctrl+E.

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