Copy shapes to clipboard as images with a transparent background

Unofficial pro tip while waiting:

1. Copy area in Lucid

2. Paste into PowerPoint (✨ magically becomes an image ✨)

3. Copy from PowerPoint and paste wherever

Not saying this is ideal… but it does work 😬

Thank you ​@Simo for providing the steps in this thread for other users to easily access!

​@Simo Thanks for sharing this idea! My team is looking into this, and I’d love to know your thoughts on this question:

In your ideal solution, how would you expect to copy a selection as a png? A standard copy/paste like in your workaround through PowerPoint but working across other platforms, a separate command specifically for copying as a png, or something else entirely? 

Thanks for asking ​@kated ! In my mind ideal solution would be to have just one copy-command but I don’t mind if it is a separate command e.g. “Copy to clipboard as PNG”. This would cover 90% of my needs.

For the rest 10% of my needs it would be great if ”Export selection” would open a modal. Modal would enable the following decisions in priority order:

1. Export format (e.g. PNG, SVG)
2. Decision if image should be stored as file or placed to clipboard
3. Background transparency
4. Scale/quality that affects the size of the picture

Copy and paste to clipboard option from Lucid to external documents is a deal breaker to me and it is such as easy feature to add. I am not sure what you are waiting for.

I am not sure why not automate the step to copy selection to clipboard as an image instead of having the user export to PNG and then copy the PNG to paste into another document. Please make your customers lives easier!

Select→ export to PNG → copy PNG → paste into document (Not convenient - too many steps)

Select → copy → paste to document (Intuitive, convenient and supported by many other competitive tools but not Lucid)

I hope you care about your customers!

Hi ​@ahmed.sobhy, thank you for commenting and detailing your feedback and what you’d like to see. I have moved your post to this idea thread, where our product team is gathering feedback on this specific topic. 

We’re very interested in your feedback and committed to continually improving our products. For more information about how we manage feedback in this community, please take a look at this post.