Combining two images in Photoshop Elements 12 doesn't seem to work

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I'm using a Lenovo w/ W10. I open image 1, then open image 2 and "copy"

function of image 2 doesn't seem to be available; I've also tried

hi-lighting a portion of image 2 to paste into image 1, but this doesn't

seem to work either.

Inspiring

Try this:

In Editor, go to the expert tab.

Open picture B, the one you wish to select something from to add to another picture.
Use one of the selection tools, e.g. selection brush, lasso tool, to select the object. You will see an outline ("marching ants") once the selection is complete
Go to Edit menu>copy to copy the selection to the clipboard
Open picture A, then go to Edit>paste
Use the move tool to position object from picture B.
In the layers palette you should see picture A as the background layer, and object B on a separate layer.

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