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Copy shapes to clipboard as images with a transparent background

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  • December 30, 2025
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In tools like Miro and Excalidraw, you can copy selected elements from the whiteboard directly to the clipboard as images (for example PNG or SVG), also with a transparent background. This makes the workflow much easier when creating material for multiple platforms where you want to reuse visuals created in Lucid.

In comparison, exporting to an image file, opening that file, copying its contents, and then pasting it into the target platform is not a lean workflow. It is slower, breaks momentum, and results in a large number of unnecessary files that are only needed temporarily for the copy-paste operation.

December 30, 2025

Hi ​@Simo, thanks for this idea and for your detailed feedback here. 

We encourage anyone else who’s interested in this to upvote this post and share any additional details about your use case or what you’d like to see in this experience. 

For more information about how we manage feedback in this community, please take a look at this post:

 

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Ambar D
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  • Lucid community team
  • December 30, 2025

Hi ​@Simo, thanks for this idea and for your detailed feedback here. 

We encourage anyone else who’s interested in this to upvote this post and share any additional details about your use case or what you’d like to see in this experience. 

For more information about how we manage feedback in this community, please take a look at this post:

 


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  • Author
  • February 3, 2026

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 😬


Ambar D
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  • Lucid community team
  • February 3, 2026

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


kated
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  • Lucid product team
  • February 4, 2026

@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? 


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  • February 5, 2026

@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