Show dimensions of flood selection (pixels) in transform-studio directly

[chessboard]

When you make a pixel selection by marquee tools or by freehand selection tool, you can see the bounding box dimensions (width and height) in the transform studio.

Sadly this doesn't work with the flood selection tool. You have to switch to a marquee or freehand selection tool after using the flood selection tool, to have the dimensions shown. It would be helpful not to have to switch tools first but to also show the dimensions for flood selections directly.

[walt.farrell]

On 9/22/2021 at 10:20 AM, chessboard said:

You have to switch to a marquee or freehand selection tool after using the flood selection tool, to have the dimensions shown.

Or you could switch to the Move Tool.

I'm not sure why the Flood Selection and Selection Brush Tools work differently from the other Tools you mentioned. In any case, please note that the values shown in the Transform panel will also include any feathering that is occurring, and you can't be sure what effect feathering has had on the values unless you switch to the Move Tool so you can see the bounding box.

 

[chessboard]

Yes, thanks for this hint, Walt.

In the end it's more a convenience thing. In my case I had to check some graphical elements in an raster image for their sizes. And switching tools is a bit anoying just to check the dimensions when this has to be done twenty times an more.
While it seems to be no problem to calculate the dimensions of a flood fill selection, it would just be nice to see them directly. I think it would be no hard task to implement this 😉.