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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!