Pixel selection toggle preview mode.

[Naz Simons]

Hello guys. I’ve been searching for the way to do this all over the place and found nothing, so here I go.

I want to be able to make a selection, for example a tonal selection or a hue selection and be able to hide it ( and to it to remain hidden), so I could then use a paint brush and paint using them as an stencil without those pesky marching ants getting in the way? Every time I try to do that, as soon as I lay down the brush to paint the selection preview toggles on showing again the marching ants.

 

Is this a bug or am I doing it the wrong way.

 

Thank you!

[walt.farrell]

[Naz Simons]

Hello, maybe I didn’t explain myself correctly. What I mean to say is that, on the iPad, having an active selection, every time I toggle the pixel selection preview off, when I try to paint the over the aforementioned selection with a paint brush, the pixel selection preview toggles itself on automatically. 
Did I make myself clear?

[walt.farrell]

Thanks. I did not understand that. (But I should have; sorry.)

I see the same behavior, and I'm not sure it's correct.

[Dan C]

Thanks for your report @Naz Simons!

This certainly doesn't seem like expected behaviour to me, I can see that the 'Preview Mode' toggle does not affect this option - but does with all other options under the menu.

Equally I would expect the option to remain 'sticky' until manually changed by the user, and not to return when you begin painting. I'll be sure to log this with our development team now.

Alongside this, I'm also requesting with our documentation team to improve the helpfiles on the 'Preview Mode' on iPad, as users would benefit from more information regarding this functionality.

I hope this helps