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Post by greyity on Sept 24, 2021 11:45:21 GMT -5
I am having a problem with the select tool. I tried magic wand, area select, the whole lot. I find that I want to add pixel by pixel yet photoshop redefines my selection every time by what it think I wanted, which isn't it. If I try to add pixel by pixel or remove pixel by pixel, other area selections change for some reason, even though I didn't wish for that to happen. In the end I am forced to accept a selection I didn't want and then remove pixel by pixel instead, which is frustrating and would be much easier if the select tool didn't select similar colour squares or whatever it is doing. The context in which I am doing is a recolour, whereby I want to select just the collar of a pyjama so I create a separate layer with in so that when I apply a pattern to the whole thing, the earlier collar colour stays in another layer.
I looked on select tool tutorials but I found no answers. I guess that's because it works differently in a photograph then a 3D flat file.
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Post by mauvemorn on Sept 24, 2021 12:21:00 GMT -5
Hi. Use polygonal or magnetic lasso  You can also use Color range if the collar is of the color that is different from the rest |
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Post by gibi on Sept 24, 2021 13:06:03 GMT -5
In addition to the lasso tools, the rectangular marquee tool is as accurate as your zoom level. If you're magnified enough to see individual pixels, it will select individual pixels. Holding SHIFT while click-and-drag with the marquee tool will add the new selection to your current selection, and holding OPTION while click-and-drag will subtract the new selection from your current. (Option may be a different key on windows I forget)
If you're using the magic wand selection tool, you can also change the tolerance to something like 1 or 2, and check "contiguous" so that the tool will only select pixels that are *very* close to what you've clicked on, and will only select more pixels that are adjacent to your selection.
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Post by menaceman44 on Sept 25, 2021 7:24:27 GMT -5
Make sure your "feathering" setting is turned down or PS will try to smooth out your selection as well.
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Post by Fwecka (Lolabellesims) on Oct 3, 2021 7:45:11 GMT -5
In addition to the lasso tools, the rectangular marquee tool is as accurate as your zoom level. If you're magnified enough to see individual pixels, it will select individual pixels. Holding SHIFT while click-and-drag with the marquee tool will add the new selection to your current selection, and holding OPTION while click-and-drag will subtract the new selection from your current. (Option may be a different key on windows I forget) If you're using the magic wand selection tool, you can also change the tolerance to something like 1 or 2, and check "contiguous" so that the tool will only select pixels that are *very* close to what you've clicked on, and will only select more pixels that are adjacent to your selection. I just now discovered this, but you can use the lasso tools to "draw" a selection around something as if you were using the brush tool. All this time, I thought you had to hold down Alt while using the Lasso tool to select something...doh! Hold Alt while "drawing" to deselect. Hold Shift while "drawing" to add to your selection. Another thing I found is that, sometimes when you can end up with blurred edges when you've selected something and deleted it. Uncheck Anti-alias located at the top of Photoshop and the edges won't be feathered and blurred (I use the 2018 version). Here's another dumb trick I use. Say you wanted to select and delete the background of an image with the magic wand tool but the background color is close to the color tone of the pixels you want to preserve. Photoshop, in that scenario, can't always figure out what pixels it's supposed to select and what it's not supposed to select. So, do this: duplicate your layer then ramp up the contrast of the duplicated layer using Brightness/Contrast. Do this until you see a marked difference between the background color and the pixels you want to preserve. Select the background with the magic wand tool then, with the background still selected, select the layer you actually want to edit and hit delete. You can delete the duplicated layer once you no longer need its exaggerated color tone. |
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