It’s helpful to save complicated selections that you may use again or to save selections to use in other images to create effects. Save a selection in one of two ways:
Save the selection as a file with a .PspSelection extension on a hard disk or removable disk; see Saving Selections to Disk. To load this selection file into Paint Shop Pro, see Loading Selections from Disk.
Save the selection as an alpha channel within the image. The selection is stored as part of the image, not as a separate file. See Saving Selections to Alpha Channels. To load the selection into the same or a different image, see Loading Selections from Alpha Channels.
Converting a Selection into a Layer
Creating Custom Patterns from Selections