Photoshop :: Marquee Tool :: Only Oval Or Square Options Are Available
Jul 4, 2009i am using photoshop elements and on the marquee tool my only options are square or oval how can i get the other two options for lines?
View 3 Repliesi am using photoshop elements and on the marquee tool my only options are square or oval how can i get the other two options for lines?
View 3 RepliesOur computer is used by several people and somehow the rectangle marquee tool lost its square corners and now only shows rounded corners.How to change the marquee tool back to the square corners?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI know I have done this before but can't fiqure out how I did it ..
View 1 Replies View RelatedI need a square around a certain part of my whole image the size of 177px by 25px. I tried using the Fixed Size property but it's not working the way I need it to. How do I make a square marquee section on my image and inlarge the width without moving the whole marquee while using the arrow keys?
View 2 Replies View Relatedcan't turn anti-aliasing on in the marquee options bar. anyone know why?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to convert my barmitzvah album to jpeg so it can be displayed in a photo frame. To do this I've scanned each page at home and put them on CD because I have to go to the library to use Photoshop.
(before anyone says I violated copyright by scanning professional photos without permission 1) The photography studio no longer exists, 2) Photos were made prior to 1989 and do not have the required copyright information per this notice.)
Originally I was going to just scan each page and be done with it but due to the size of the pages and the scanners I have access to I would have to do two passes and stitch them together. When I tried doing that the subjects of the photos lined up but not the background so now I want to remove the background.
I had no problem with some pictures but the one is the first I've had an issue with. Using the Magic Extractor it takes out almost all of the background see this image which is left from the original.
I've tried using the oval tool to select the inner part but can't get it lined up correctly. Where should I be starting from?
In ps7 editor I can have 2 pictures cascaded and using the marquee tool and the move tool insert a section of one picture into the other. I cannot do this in ps11, what am I doing wrong?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI want to crop a photo into an oval with the cookie cutter tool. As soon as I drag the oval from the center out the photo is then covered with white and gray squares so I can no longer see the photo.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhen I use the Marquee tool, or the single row marquee I have perfect borders in my forms, but when instead I use the rectangle tool, the line tool or the elipse tool I have these strange borders that are not well delimited.
I have already deleted the default settings, but still continues the same.
When I use the square selection tool, the selection edges are rounded rather than square. I can't remember how to rset this.
How do you make the edges square by default?
I have a rectangular image. Is it possible to use the "Eclipse tool", and make a oval shape..and take my rectangular image, and completely conformed to an oval shape, no longer showing the rectangular corners (the whole image totally conformed to OVAL).
Second question...with GIMP, can one take an image, and make the edges look like there tattered, or worn?
I have a square to round transition that I need formed up and the shop is telling me that they would prefer to split this thing at the corners rather than the flats. I've tried two different ways of doing this but how to handle this part. It's 10.75" OD at the bottom and 2'-4" square at the top and 1'3" in length and made of 1/4" stainless steel plate. The shop wants this in four bent pieces that they can weld together down the corners.
I've tried making just the one side but I'm not getting the results I would like to see. Making the full transition (as in the picture above) gives the finished result I am looking for but I can't separate it into multiple sides.
After making a selection with either the retangular or eclipse tool, is there a way to go back and edit that selection?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI would like to know how to draw a specific size marquee. I usually click the marquee tool and simply drag vertically and horizontally while watching the "sizing" measures. Is there an easy way to draw, say a 5" x 7" rectangle without having to be so precise with the tool.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs there any particular reason to use a shape over a marquee if the marquee gives me the results I need? Example, creating simple gradient background images for a web site.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm having a problem in Photoshop 7.0 where I can't see the borders of the selected area while dragging the cursor. Once I release the mouse button I can see the borders OK, but not while dragging. This makes precision selections difficult. It seem to happenÂwith any tool used to select an area i.e. marquee, lasso, pen, etc.Â
View 1 Replies View RelatedI seem to have turned something on, Photoshop 6.0. Everytime I attempt to use the marquee tool (square) to select a portion of a picture to define a pattern, the ends go round and it feathers it like a vignette....What have I done here? Did I turn something on, and if so, how do you turn it off?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI upgraded to CS2. I have a 266 p4 and 2 gigs of RAM with XP home and Service Pack 2. CS wouldn't install, kept insisting that I enter the original disk, when I had the CS CD already in my computer, so I entered my serial # into my one-month trial and it seemed to work. Every since things have been a bit strange with lots of little, usually unrepeatable incidents. The retangular marquee tool, has been driving me nuts. Often, when I rotate the image slightly to level the horizon, I use the marquee tool and crop command to trim the edges. When I get the dotted line near the margins of the image, the whole screen often goes blank. I have to click the mouse to get the image back and if the dotted line isn't where I want it, I have to start with the tool all over again. Earlier today, when I tried to use the marquee tool, it froze the computer. Cntrl-alt-delete to end program got no response. I had to reboot to recover. Just now I tried to crop after rotating. I outlined the desired area with marquee tool, pulled down the image menu and clicked crop and nothing happened. Sometimes this happens when I work with layers, but I had none this time. I quit and restarted Photoshop. Same problem. Finally, in desperation, I quit CS2 and opened the image with my old PS 5.0 Limited Edition! The marquee tool and crop worked like a champ. My computer is working fine with all the other software except photoshop. This is the most expensive software that I've ever purchase and I'm having lots of problems.
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen I use the marquee tool there is a plus sign in the lower right hand corner and it will not do anything, but continue secting. It will not allow me to move the rectangle that I formed. How did this happen and how can I turn this off?
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhen I release my mouse after using any marquee tool, the layer vanishes..all I see is the gray of the workspace. The layer is still visable in the layers window. No matter how much I enlarge ot reduce the view..it's just gone.
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Using CS6 Extanded on a brand new PC made for doing graphics on..running Windows 7 64 bit.
I'd like to create a PS action that starts out with a rectangular marquee selection. (So the first step in the action would be to switch to the rectangular marquee tool and then allow me to make an arbitrary selection).
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When I try recording this as an action the selection (location, size) is hard-coded into the action. For other tasks I'd just check the "Toggle dialog on/off" checkbox to force the action to allow me to make my own choices but that doesn't seem possible for the marquee selection tool.
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Am I missing something obvious or is this just how things work?
I've recently upgraded from Photoshop cs3 to cs5.1 and have noticed that the marquee tool's selection is not as accurate as I'd like. For something simple like drawing a selection around a square I could previously do this down to the exact pixel with a single click and drag. My process (while working at 100%) now goes like this:
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i) Choose which bit of the cursor I place in the top left of the square to trace (I use the black inner lines)
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ii) Click and begin dragging and see that the selection in the top left is now 1 pixel down and 1 pixel to the right of where I clicked.
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iii) Drag the selection to the bottom right of the square and align the inner lines of the crosshair
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iv) Release the mouse button. The top left corner now springs back into the originally clicked position (good). The bottom right corner now jumps up to 2 pixels up and 2 pixels left of the actual corner.
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 I am left trying to approximate how far past my object corner I overshoot in order for it to be correct when it 'jumps' back. It feels as though I'm getting similar selection errors as if I was working at a random image zoom such as 337%
Jumping problem is the same if 'snap' is turned on or off...The problem occurs at 100% and is marginally improved at 200% - although I can't get an accurate selection in 10 attempts.Also in cs3 the Marquee tool's crosshair was 1 pixel thick and now in cs5.1 it is 3 pixels thick due to the white outline around it, I find this harder to use and unable to switch off.Selecting cursors 'precise' in preferences doesn't fix it
First one: When ever I try to make the All Ages font 3D It says 'Could not complete the command Path is too complex' something like that. So How can I fix it.
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Second one: Is there a way I can Load selection and use the rectangular marquee tool in photoshop CS6? I tried holding shift then doing it but no luck.
I have CS6 and did the newest update yesterday. I'm working on Mac OS X 10.6.8. The elliptical tool doesn't function anymore correctly. If I want to make an ellipse or circle first it looks normal but if I let go the mouse, it changes the shape in another form like square.
View 9 Replies View RelatedThe problem is with the 'rectangular marquee tool' ... after I select a box, the tool defaults to a marquee that eliminates a portion of the first selected box. The curser changes to show the '+' curser with an 'x' in the lower right of the cursor.
View 1 Replies View RelatedMy first day using PS 7.0!
When I select an area with the rectangular marquee tool a window with the following text appears:
"Warning. No pixels are more than 50% selected, the selection edges will not be visible"
When I close the warning window the selection is no longer indicated.
when i click on the rectangular marquee tool (or elliptical, doesn't matter that much) my mouse pointer automatically gets the little "+" sign next to it, the same you get when holding shift and selecting an area, except i'm not holding shift it's really irritating because i can't deselect by clicking in an empty area, i have to press ctrl+D everytime now,
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhen I use the rectangular marquee to crop a picture it now has rounded corners.
This has never happened before.
How do I get back to the square corners.
I am using Photoshop 6.0 and have the Rectangular Marquee Tool. But some times i need to fill color in a circular shape. or use a cirucular highlighter.
So is their any other tool for that or can I change the settings to make it circular? Or is their any other way to achieve that goal?
I have the new cs3 and for some reason I can't find my Elliptic Marquee tool ?
View 2 Replies View Relatedi try to use this now it is giving me an error message saying:
"Warning: No pixels more than 50% were selected. The selection edges will not be visible."
can someone tell me how to fix this. half my projects require this and im tired of this error message.