cut and paste behavior

Posted by jvander on
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/cut-and-paste-behavior-tp3702929.html

When I need to precisely move a portion of an image it is convenient to select the portion, cut, paste
and then nudge it with arrow keys.

This works great with the rectangular selection tool because when you paste it puts the portion of
the object right back in it's original place and then allows you to nudge it as desired by tapping the
arrow keys and getting single pixel precision in your movements.

However the other selection tools (ellipse, freehand and arbitrary polygon) do not behave in this
manner.  When you paste, the selected region seems to be pasted to the upper left hand corner of
the image.  So you have to move it to get it back to it's original position and that can often be
difficult when you are trying for pixel level precision.

Do others see the same behavior?  Or is it somehow unique to my system?

thanks