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2011/08/23 15:59:57 (permalink)
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HS7 - Merging two images and editing as a single image

In the new HS7.n, if you capture one image, then paste another, either at bottom or at right or any place, you used to be able to lose focus or select the original image, then the two were tied together.  You could cut out horizontal strips, or vertical, put in edits, etc., and it was treated like one image.
 
Now, when you paste at bottom, then click on the original image and loose the focus of the copied image, it doesn't matter what you do, the two images are not merged or tied together.  This makes editing extremely difficult.
 
To recreate, take the capture of two screen shots.
Copy one image and then select the other and paste at bottom.
Click on the original image area.
Select cut strip and try to remove a horizontal strip.
If you choose a portion of the original image, it leaves a white space.
If you choose a portion of the copied image, it doesn't remove anything but the canvass underneath the image.
 
The same is true if you use the horizontal cut strip, or add a callout box or whatever.  Once you add something then start editing parts of the merged image, all your boxes and edits start to move around.  The two images are never fully merged and treated as one single image.
 
I found this a powerful feature of HS6.  Has the process to accomplish this moved in HS7 and I'm not aware of it or was this change intentional or working as designed?
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Exact HyperSnap version in use (from Help/About menu): 7.06.01
Windows version in use: XP Pro SP3 
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    Re:HS7 - Merging two images and editing as a single image 2011/08/23 16:37:32 (permalink)
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    Hello PH510,
    the feature you want has NOT vanished in HS7. There only was one feature added that you probably use a lot.
    In the EDIT ribbon there is an icon called Drawing Mode Toggle. If this mode is activated, all operations refer to the selected area, even if no selection (corners to click on) is visible. If you then cut out stripes or other things, it only affects the selection. You are right so far.
    If you click on the toggle icon AFTER pasting a second image, the image disappears.
    So what you should do is:
    Create two snapshots.
    Copy the second.
    Go to the first one. Click on Toggle Mode, so that shapes are deactivated and you draw directly on the image.
    Paste the second image.
    Use the Cut-icon and if done right, the strip should be cut out affecting both parts of the image.
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    Re:HS7 - Merging two images and editing as a single image 2011/08/23 16:47:09 (permalink)
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    Perfectly explained and answered.  And yes, doing a test following your instructions, the function works as it always did.
    Thank you!!!
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    Re:HS7 - Merging two images and editing as a single image 2011/08/24 11:18:20 (permalink)
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    Thank you, Thomas, for answering this! Just an idea of alternative approach - after you paste the other image (or add other elements to the image), select them all (Ctrl+A is the convenient shortcut for that) or some of them (click on elements while holding Ctrl key) - then use the "Imprint" button to "imprint" shapes (selected elements) directly on the image. Now they are not separate any more, but part of the image and everything else works on this image as before.
     
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    Re:HS7 - Merging two images and editing as a single image 2011/10/09 18:35:35 (permalink)
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    Support after you paste the other image (or add other elements to the image), select them all (Ctrl+A is the convenient shortcut for that)....

     
    It seems, that the shortcut [Ctrl+A] does not select all shapes, although it should do. Have you re-checked it in the recent  versions?
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    Re:HS7 - Merging two images and editing as a single image 2011/10/10 10:40:32 (permalink)
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    Leopoldus,
    I just tried Ctl+A after dawing some shapes first, and it still works fine... Of course it has no effect if you don't have anything drawn or pasted over the image. Or possibly you could have change or delete the key assignment for this function. You could restore it, e.g. from "Setup" ribbon tab, "Customize" button, "Keyboard" tab - select "All Commands" category, then highlight "Select All Shapes" and look if Ctrl+A is listed under "Current Keys".
     
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    Re:HS7 - Merging two images and editing as a single image 2011/10/10 11:19:57 (permalink)
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    Support Or possibly you could have change or delete the key assignment for this function. You could restore it, e.g. from "Setup" ribbon tab, "Customize" button, "Keyboard" tab - select "All Commands" category, then highlight "Select All Shapes" and look if Ctrl+A is listed under "Current Keys".

    Thanks, I've checked now the command's hotket assignment and found out, that there was no any default hotkey for this command. You could hint in your previous post, that Ctrl+A is not a default hotkey, but a user has to assign it hiself.
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    Re:HS7 - Merging two images and editing as a single image 2011/10/10 11:38:26 (permalink)
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    Actually I did make it a default hot key in some 7.0x version, but maybe your registry state remembered it from an even older version when there was no assignement. Not sure. I often need to uninstall completely and re-install HyperSnap 7 for testing purposes, so I may not have catch this situation (upgrading continuously without fresh install)
     
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