A.Photo: Selection marquee tool quick question

[Chris26]

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Edited December 12, 2020 by Chris26
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[GarryP]

If you solve your own problem then it may be more useful to other people if you leave the original post and add a new post saying how you solved it.
That way, if someone else has the same problem, they might also be able to use your solution.
Removing – or ‘blanking out’ – your original post doesn’t really help anyone else.
Even if the problem was down to something which later became obvious you may not be the only person to come across it.

[Chris26]

1 hour ago, GarryP said:

If you solve your own problem then it may be more useful to other people if you leave the original post and add a new post saying how you solved it.
That way, if someone else has the same problem, they might also be able to use your solution.
Removing – or ‘blanking out’ – your original post doesn’t really help anyone else.
Even if the problem was down to something which later became obvious you may not be the only person to come across it.

Well if it's of any use to anyone - In Photoshop you can use the selection tool and while holding down the space bar refine its position before letting go.  In designer you can use any shape tool and before letting go of the mouse hold the space bar and refine its position.  But in A.photo you can not do this.  So I was trying out modifying keys and searching the help.  But nothing.  It simply can not be done.  So the only thing you can do is to select with the marquee, let go the mouse, then re-position.  This is fine for square and rectangle shapes, but not for eliptical since when you first point the crosshairs and drag the eliptical does not begin at where you positioned the crosshairs.  Since the only way to refine its position is to re-position as close as possible to your chosen area, then use the ADD and select that tiny bit more, but then this makes things a little non-eliptical or non-circular.  99 times out of a hundred this selction is no trouble at all, just on this one occaision I needed precision.

Now, having waffled all this out for people to read, do you think anyone is really interested in my morning rant?

[GarryP]

I’m not entirely sure what you want to do but I think you might be able to do what you want with Quick Masks, see attached video for a short, simple, example.
If this isn’t what you need then if you describe it differently someone may be able to give you a better solution.

[Chris26]

21 minutes ago, GarryP said:

but I think you might be able to do what you want with Quick Masks

Oh maybe the rant was worth it. 🤨 Thankyou Garry, that is a perfect way to do it.  Being weaned off Adobe techniques is painfully sorrowful at times, but we'll get there.

[Xzenor]

You bet it was a useful rant!

I didn't know this either and was annoyed about it as well. Thanks for asking!

[digidoggy]

Thanks a lot!!!! That was exactly what I was looking for