1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2<!DOCTYPE sect2 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" 3 "http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd"> 4<!-- section history: 5 2007-10-09 j.h: no change needed for v2.4 6 2007-05-16 Added Spanish translation by AntI 7 2007-02-11 KoSt: added 'no' 8 2006-07-29 lexa: patch from julien that includes suggestions by Sally 9 2005-09-09 de added; reviewed by axel.wernicke 10--> 11<sect2 id="gimp-edit-clear"> 12 <title>Clear</title> 13 14 <indexterm> 15 <primary>Layer</primary> 16 <secondary>Clear</secondary> 17 <tertiary>Clear layer content</tertiary> 18 </indexterm> 19 <indexterm> 20 <primary>Selection</primary> 21 <secondary>Clear selection content</secondary> 22 </indexterm> 23 <indexterm> 24 <primary>Clear</primary> 25 </indexterm> 26 27 <para> 28 The <guimenuitem>Clear</guimenuitem> command deletes everything 29 in the current selection. If there is no current selection, 30 the contents of the active layer are removed. If the active 31 layer has an alpha channel, the deleted selection is made 32 transparent. You can restore the original color to the transparent 33 area using the Eraser tool, by setting it to Anti-Erase. If the 34 layer does not have an alpha channel, the deleted area is 35 filled using the current background color. 36 </para> 37 <para> 38 Clearing a selection does not delete the selection itself. Unlike 39 <quote>Cut</quote>, <quote>Clear</quote> does not place the deleted 40 contents in the Clipboard and the contents of the clipboard are 41 unaffected. 42 </para> 43 44 <sect3> 45 <title>Activate the Command</title> 46 <itemizedlist> 47 <listitem> 48 <para> 49 You can access this command from the image menubar through 50 <menuchoice> 51 <guimenu>Edit</guimenu> 52 <guimenuitem>Clear</guimenuitem> 53 </menuchoice>, 54 </para> 55 </listitem> 56 <listitem> 57 <para> 58 or by using the keyboard shortcut <keycap>Delete</keycap>. 59 </para> 60 </listitem> 61 </itemizedlist> 62 </sect3> 63</sect2> 64