fwm2 Posted February 4 Posted February 4 New to Photo V2 from PS where I'm used to being able to select the marquee tool and either just click and drag or enter a fixed size in pixels, inches, mm etc... then clicking on the document/photo to position the sized section. Is there a way to add a fixed size marquee selection area in Photo V2 please? Thanks fwm2 Quote
NotMyFault Posted February 4 Posted February 4 You can use the move tool and transform panel to enter absolute position and size for any active selection. Just ensure that an empty pixel layer is active while using this method, otherwise you would destructively modify the content in the selected area. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | MBP M3 Windows 11 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 | Dell 27“ 4K iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. I use iPad screenshots and videos even in the Desktop section of the forum when I expect no relevant difference.
R C-R Posted February 4 Posted February 4 7 hours ago, NotMyFault said: You can use the move tool and transform panel to enter absolute position and size for any active selection. Just ensure that an empty pixel layer is active while using this method, otherwise you would destructively modify the content in the selected area. I think the OP is talking about the 'marching ants' marquee selection tools. If so, just keep one of those tools selected & the Transform values can be changed without affecting any layer, selected or not. (This works for all these selection tools except the selection brush & flood select tools.) Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
fwm2 Posted February 4 Author Posted February 4 Thanks both for the prompt replies. Yes marching ants indeed. My problem is that I have shaky hands and sketching things out to make up in the workshop was easy enough with the fixed sizing, black fill, reduce selection by 2px and back-space to leave me an outline of each piece… I’ll give your suggestions a try and see where I go from there. Cheers fwm2 Quote
NotMyFault Posted February 4 Posted February 4 2 hours ago, R C-R said: I think the OP is talking about the 'marching ants' marquee selection tools. If so, just keep one of those tools selected & the Transform values can be changed without affecting any layer, selected or not. (This works for all these selection tools except the selection brush & flood select tools.) Probably another difference between Desktop and iPad. On iPad you need to activate move tool, otherwise transform panel is locked against input. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | MBP M3 Windows 11 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 | Dell 27“ 4K iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. I use iPad screenshots and videos even in the Desktop section of the forum when I expect no relevant difference.
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