White box appears around object that I try to copy using layers in Photoshop Elements?

A friend gave me a photo of him holding a pan when he was panning for gold. He wants me to digitally put a big gold nugget into the pan. I found an image on the internet of a gold nugget, selected the gold nugget and tried to copy it onto the oither photo. However, whenever I try to copy or drag the photo, it is surrounded by a white box that I cannot get rid of. What am I doing wrong?White box appears around object that I try to copy using layers in Photoshop Elements?
Follow these steps:





1. Convert the picture of the gold nugget into a photoshop document (just choose save as then .psd).





2. Now that you can create layers in your document, make sure the nugget is contained in a layer, and not in something called ';background';. If it's in background, right click on the background word and choose ';promote to layer.';





3. Choose the selection tool that selects by color. Click on the white part, it should be showing a dotted line around it.





4. Choose invert selection.





5. Choose copy.





6. Paste the nugget into the original photo.





Voila!White box appears around object that I try to copy using layers in Photoshop Elements?
i'd have to see to be sure but it sounds like you have the stroke turned on for your selection i assume you just use the rectangular marquee to make a quick selection. when you have the stroke turned on it puts a border the size and color of your choosing around your selection. this is used often in graphic design applications.


try using a different selection tool like the magic wand and see if you get the same results. otherwise you can just erase out the sections you don't want around the gold nugget and the stroke will go along with it.