Photoshop Elements 8 for Windows: The Missing Manual

Edit Menu

The choices listed here let you make changes to your files. This is also where you can access your Elements preferences to change their settings.

Undo

To back out of your last action, select Undo here or press Ctrl+Z. You can keep applying this command to undo as many steps as you've set in the Undo History panel's preferences (Edit → Preferences → Performance → History States).

Redo

If you undo something and then change your mind again, redo it here or press Ctrl+Y.

Revert

Choose this command to return your image to the state it was in the last time you saved it.

Cut

To remove something from your image and store it on the Clipboard (so you can paste it into another file), choose this menu item or press Ctrl+X.

Copy

To copy something to the Clipboard, highlight it and select this menu item or press Ctrl+C. The Copy command copies only the top layer in a file with layers. To copy all the layers in your selected area, use Copy Merged instead.

Copy Merged

To make a single, combined copy of all the layers in the selected area to the Clipboard, choose this menu option or press Shift+Ctrl+C. To copy just the active layer to the Clipboard, use Copy instead.

Paste

Use this command or press Ctrl+V to add whatever you have cut or copied to an image.

Paste Into Selection

Use this special command for pasting something within the confines of an existing selection. See Controlling the Selection Tools for more on how this command works. Keyboard shortcut: Shift+Ctrl+V.

Delete

This command removes what ...