A system, method and computer-readable medium for propagating cropped images over a web socket connection in a networked collaboration workspace, including transmitting a representation of a collaboration workspace hosted on a server and including images, detecting a user input selecting an image portion of an image, the user input corresponding to coordinates, transmitting the coordinates to a transparent layer, the transparent layer comprising an application programming interface configured to interface with the operating system or applications, capturing the image portion based at least in part on the coordinates, detecting a second user input to drag the selected image portion to a location, and transmitting a plurality of commands to the server, the plurality of commands being configured to cause the image to be removed from the collaboration workspace and cause the image portion to be inserted into the collaboration workspace based at least in part on the location.