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Posted on 28/10/12 6:01:32 PM |
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Artwel
Satire Supremo Posts: 607 Reply  |
Selection tool/ inverted selection problems.
Just wondering if anybody has had this problem, it's getting annoying now! CS5 When I make a selection and copy and paste I sometimes (not always) get an inverse of my selection. It seems to happen randomly so I basically have to copy and paste then go back and invert the selection to get the non-inverted correction section! ... Maybe I've clicked on something without realising? Any ideas? thanks  _________________ Quote of the day.. "Photoshop isn't really meant to be used for drawing".. |
Posted on 28/10/12 6:08:09 PM |
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Artwel
Satire Supremo Posts: 607 Reply |
Re: Selection tool/ inverted selection problems.
I've just realised this only happens everytime a make a selection using the pen tool. _________________ Quote of the day.. "Photoshop isn't really meant to be used for drawing".. |
Posted on 28/10/12 6:44:46 PM |
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Artwel
Satire Supremo Posts: 607 Reply |
Re: Selection tool/ inverted selection problems.
Ignore me, I see what I did now.. Maybe if I spent more time finding the solution to the problem rather than complaining about it, rather like when the Down arrow key broke on my keyboard and it took me 6 months so buy a new one.. hmm  _________________ Quote of the day.. "Photoshop isn't really meant to be used for drawing".. |
Posted on 29/10/12 06:31:05 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2885 Reply  |
Re: Selection tool/ inverted selection problems.
Im glad you have answered your own question 
In the meantime you have also solved one of my many mysteries of life too!! I had just resigned myself to inverting the selection each time I used the pen tool! I feel quite liberated now Thank you_________________ Wicked Witch of the West: I'm melting! I'm melting! |
Posted on 29/10/12 09:03:44 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 6997 Reply  |
Re: Selection tool/ inverted selection problems.
I find it best to have the Pen tool set on the fourth choice - Exclude Overlapping Shapes. That way if you draw one path inside another, it will be subtracted from the larger selection. This method will, of course, still create single paths as regular selections. |
Posted on 29/10/12 2:16:46 PM |
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Artwel
Satire Supremo Posts: 607 Reply |
Re: Selection tool/ inverted selection problems.
Thanks Steve, I'd never even taken notice of those icons before!  _________________ Quote of the day.. "Photoshop isn't really meant to be used for drawing".. |
Posted on 30/10/12 08:52:30 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 6997 Reply |
Re: Selection tool/ inverted selection problems.
Maybe I should write a book about this stuff... |
Posted on 30/10/12 10:08:41 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3007 Reply  |
Re: Selection tool/ inverted selection problems.
Yes, Steve, you write a book about Photohop vector graphics and I, for one, will buy it. |
Posted on 30/10/12 11:52:50 AM |
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joeysala
Perfect Palmist Posts: 604 Reply  |
Re: Selection tool/ inverted selection problems.
Steve - please, where do I find/access the "fourth choice - Exclude Overlapping Shapes"? (Sometimes I think they had me in mind when they wrote the Dummy books!) _________________ "Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art........" Joseph Conrad |
Posted on 30/10/12 1:11:08 PM |
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Artwel
Satire Supremo Posts: 607 Reply |
Re: Selection tool/ inverted selection problems.
Joey those Dummy books are too technical! The exclude overlapping shapes icon is the fourth one along, see above picture, pen tool then top right icons bar. _________________ Quote of the day.. "Photoshop isn't really meant to be used for drawing".. |
Posted on 01/11/12 06:59:39 AM |
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joeysala
Perfect Palmist Posts: 604 Reply |
Re: Selection tool/ inverted selection problems.
Thanks Artwel - and, if "too technical" means the same as "too right-brained" I plead guilty!  _________________ "Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art........" Joseph Conrad |