I am trying to do is figure out how to use the marquee tool to delete the bottom 2/3rds of a rounded rectangle. Here's what I am doing: Clicking on the rounded rectangle and drawing it to the size I want selecting the marquee tool and selecting the area of the rounded rectangle I want to delete. After I selected the area with the marquee tool, I press delete and instead of the area I selected being deleted, the whole layer is deleted instead.
I 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?
I'm trying to rotate the rectangle marquee on an image in a layer. Everytime I rotate it rotates the selection being made. How would I rotate the rectangle marquee without rotating the selection then I will be able to delete the selection after rotation.
I would like to use the Ellipitical tool for selecting a portion of the circle.
If you can imagine drawing 2 circles with the Ellipitical tool so that they overlap each other until there is just a sliver between the two circles. It's that sliver that I would like to select so that I can fill it in with a colour or touch up tool.
I 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.
Is 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.
I'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
I was working on some web design stuff, and I was using the rectangular marquee heavily. Accidentally I hit some keys, and then the marquee didn't mark a rectangular area anymore, but an odd rectangular-elliptical shape. I didn't change the tools or anything, the rectangular marquee was still selected.
I 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?
I 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.
When 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?
When 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. Â Using CS6 Extanded on a brand new PC made for doing graphics on..running Windows 7 64 bit.
I have Mac OS X with PS CS5. Is there a way to save an image in which I have selected a portion of an image, and have the selection marquee (marching ants) be part of the saved file so that when I reopen the file, the selection marquee is still visible?
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). Â 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. Â Am I missing something obvious or is this just how things work?
Basically this happpens in CS6 when using the Marquee tool and moving the marquee with the arrow keys or dragging inside the marquee. Does not repeat in CS4.About the only way to make it go away is to reduce cache levels in Preferences > Performance to 1 which is a problem in itself. Refreshing the screen (toggling the Tab key) makes the ghost marks go away but they reappear when moving the marquee. Changing Tile Size does not do anything.   My graphics card is integrated,so aside from buying a new laptop,my options are limited.Maybe a Adobe employee can look at it
Tech data: Â Adobe Photoshop Version: 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00) x32 Operating System: Windows 7 32-bit Version: 6.1 Service Pack 1 System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:15, Stepping:13 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3
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:  i) Choose which bit of the cursor I place in the top left of the square to trace (I use the black inner lines)  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.  iii) Drag the selection to the bottom right of the square and align the inner lines of the crosshair  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.   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. Â 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.
The 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.
I've just started using PS CS2 and i can't figure it how to view the size when using marquee tool. For example when i want to select something i want to see the current size of marquee while i'm moving marquee around. It's really hard to select for example 153×44 with marquee when i have no idea how big current selection is. Hope you understand what i mean.
Also, is there any way to measure for example how many pixels is between two let's say bots. I know that you have ruler but that doesn't really. Basically similar to above with marquee size. When you draw a line, it shows how long this line is.
I have a problem with the Rectangular Marquee. When ever i use it, it gives me an error "No pixels are more than 50% Selected, the selection edges will not be visible." what does that mean and how do i fix it?
By the way do you guys know any photoshop tutorials for Textureing 3D content?
how to do a simple resize of a rectangle marquee after I have drawn a selection onto my document.
I opened an image in a new PSD document, and drew a rectangle marquee around the selection I want to cut. Problem is the rectangle marquee isn't the size I want, so when I use transform selection to scale the selection, it causes the whole image to scale with the marquee I've drawn.
I don't want the image to scale, I just want the marquee I drew to scale into the desired size.
I use Photoshop 7.0, I use the marquee tool frequently. It always used to have straight corners, but the past week it has started to automatically do round corners. I haven't changed any settings. Why does this happen? I can mention that I use InDesign CS2. I have worked a lot with rectangles with round corners there recently, but every time changed the corners manually. After a couple of weeks though the program started to automatically change every rectangle to round corners. I didn't know how to change this, but after a couple of weeks it went back to straight corners automatically. I use Windows Vista. Initially there was some problems to make it go with Photoshop and InDesign, but now it works fine most of the time.
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,
