Color Range "Local Group"

Hello together,
I just wonder what the new feature within the Select: Color Range Dialogue means.
I'm using the german version, so I don't know how it's named in english, but it should be something like "local colorgroup". It's the only new feature in this dialogue.
So, what exactly does this feature? i tried for some time but I can't figure.
As far as I thought in the beginning I can reduce the selected color values a bit more smooth in adition to the tolerance-bar.
But than, sometimes, after checking the box for this feature, my selection gets twice as big as it was before?
Can anyone help me out of my misery. :)
Thanks a lot
Philip

From what I can tell, it seems that the function will be more tolerant the closer it is to the click point.
In other words, it's kinda of like a radial gradient spanning out from the point that you click. It will select more for the area closer to the click point and gradually less as it moves away.
This may or may not be what it does, this is just what I have found from fooling around with it.

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All the while, keep an eye on the dialog box display which shows what you've selected, albeit crudely. If you pick up unwanted colors, switch to the "subtract from sample" (minus) eyedropper and drag it over those areas.
When you think you've got it about right, experiment with the fuzziness slider to see if you can improve things by increasing or decreasing fuzziness.
Don't re-use the plain eyedropper unless you want to start all over again. Optionally, instead of switching among the 3 eyedroppers, you can activate only the plain eyedropper but use it with SHIFT to add or ALT to subtract.

Mask- color range sometime crash , did it happen to you?

Hi
i run photoshop cs5 under w7 32bit ultimate
sometime when i select a mask , mask palete -> color range photoshop stops to work and give me an error
did it happen to you?
is there a cure?
thanks
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This has been happening to me today only. I have been using this program for about a year now. Today I duplicated a layer, went to select at the top, and selected "Select Color". I selected a lot, most of the image, then when I clicked "Okay" it crashed. I did this several times and it persists. I remembered to copy the error thingy one time and it was this:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name:                        APPCRASH
Application Name:                             Photoshop.exe
Application Version:                           12.0.0.0
Application Timestamp:                     4bbc5b10
Fault Module Name:                          MMXCore.8BX
Fault Module Version:                        12.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp:                  4bbc6013
Exception Code:                                  c0000005
Exception Offset:                                000000000002616a
OS Version:                                          6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3
Locale ID:                                             1033
Additional Information 1:                  6e28
Additional Information 2:                  60c89792d861b06d6249963314831187
Additional Information 3:                  b098
Additional Information 4:                  a86d8e801a11949dbe1113ebd4726171
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C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Temp\WER3D6E.tmp.version.txt
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C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Temp\WERBD2F.tmp.mdmp
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Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Temp\WER2C1F.tmp.version.txt
C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Temp\WER50A0.tmp.appcompat.txt
C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Temp\WER50EF.tmp.mdmp
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PS CS5: select color range not working properly

The color range is a grate command but it doesn't work properly when dragging the eye dropper across the image. This is especially noticeable with a low range value. When you start the selection (without pressing the shift key) and drag across the image only the end point is selected instead of the whole trace. Second, when dragging with the shift key pressed not the trace is added to the selection but a rectangular area. You can easily try this out by creating any one color image and lower the range value to about 5.
In my opinion this is a bug or am I missing something?

Hello,
When you start the selection (without pressing the shift key) and drag across the image only the end point is selected instead of the whole trace.
This behavior is as designed. When you make a selection without holding the shift key, and you have the first eyedropper selected in the menu (the one that doesn't have a plus or minus sign) you are a making an initial selection on the image. If you hold and drag this selection, it will just change the initial selection to match whatever destination you prefer on the image.
Second, when dragging with the shift key pressed not the trace is added to the selection but a rectangular area.
I can reproduce this behavior, too. I believe this is also as designed, because the range is too small to make an organic looking selection. I think the more standard workflow is to start with the range high (100%), make the selection of the localized color area you want to mask, and then reduce the range value as needed.
Color Range isn't terribly intuitive to me, but it can be a powerful selection tool. Photoshop Evangelist Russell Brown has a really good tutorial on Adobe TV about using color range. Have you seen this before?
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/the-russell-brown-show/the-secret-life-of-color-range/
Hope this helps!

Color Range Command | Understanding Adobe Photoshop CS6 | Adobe TV

The Color Range command is the best way to make a color-based selection. Build and adjust your mask and then use it to apply localized changes to your image.
http://adobe.ly/10e9p8Y

I cannot find Color Range under Select.Why isn't it there? Please help.

Color range change in CS4 (why change this?)

another "change" in CS4 i quite dont understand why they did.
in CS3 i was about to sample from the toolbox the forgeground color (black-white) as well as change the foreground color (x)
and then sample from then, ensuring that I was sampling the purest white and black from that channel, now it does not work anymore.
I really feel many changes were done to CS4 were done without consulting (testing?) by heavy users (people that spend 8-12 hours a day with application. Maybe I'm wrong, but it is annoying, even the quick keys for cycling through channels make no sense whatsoever, (command 1, to start from the FIRST channel is so INTUITIVE!!!)

The legacy option that you are looking for in Color Range, is still available by unchecking the strangely named "Localized Color Clusters" - this creates much cruder selections but does it more "purely"- it creates the same selections as before, and still uses the foreground colour as a starting point. Actions created in CS3 and earlier will pick up this option.
I really feel many changes were done to CS4 were done without
consulting (testing?) by heavy users (people that spend 8-12 hours a
day with application.
Yes, many of us are getting this impression especially with the last 2 revisions, although this particular feature isn't really one example. There is a lot of new functionality in Color Range under the hood, and the quality of the selections with "color clusters" on is hugely improved.

Select- Color Range- Results in Blue Screen (PC) (driver out of date)

I've been using the CS6 beta about two days. While experimenting with color range I experienced two consecutive blue screen crashes. The first time it happened,I was working with the color range selector and was replacing the selected areas with another color using the paint bucket. About the third time I attempted this, my PC blue screened. The second time, I opened a photo, went to Select>Color Range and got an immediate blue screen crash.
I then went back to CS5 and I've been playing with the same scenario with no apparent problems.
My PC is a store built computer. It consists of an MSI 990-FXA GD80 motherboard, an AMD Phenom 1100t CPU, Asus GTX550 Ti graphics card and 8 gig of RAM. It boots from a 60 gig SSD and my programs reside on a 500 gig hard drive. The OS is Windows 7 Professional 64 bit. CS6 is using the hard drive for its scratch disk and Photoshop is using 4339 mb of the 7232 mb of available RAM - I haven't changed that. I'm running CS6 as administrator because the way it installed, it would only run in that fashion.
One disappointment during the installation was CS6 made no attempt to read my preferences from the CS5 install. That may be covered in another post, I've not yet looked.
Please keep us informed as new betas are released, because I would like some time to work with this puppy before plunking down big bux for the upgrade. As it is now, I'm going back to CS5. I get mighty nervous when my super computer blue screens!
Gerry
gswetsky AT bellsouth DOT net

The GPU is often at root of issues like yours. I've had so many problems with Nvidia drivers for their gaming-oriented adapters (like yours) that I finally went with one of their workstation cards. I have a Quadro card with just enough RAM to make Photoshop happy. The workstation drivers are optimized for reliability, the consumer card drivers are optimized for gaming and that often means they're less stable and reliable with Photoshop.

How to apply Software Restriction policy for specific user in local group policy object ?

I am working on implementing user based software restriction policy programmatically for local group policy object.
If i create a policy through Domain Controller,i do have option for software restriction policy in user configuration but in local group policy editor i don't have option for that.
When i look for the changes made by policy applied from Domain Controller in registry, they modifies registry values for specific users on path HKEY_USERS\(SID of User)\Softwares\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Safer\Codeidentifiers
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I achieved what I wanted but is it right to modify registry values ?
You also can modify a registry programmatically based policy. Check this:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsadsi/archive/2009/07/23/working-with-group-policy-objects-programmatically-simple-c-example-illustrating-how-to-modify-a-registry-based-policy.aspx
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Color Range command in Photoshop CS6 13.0.4 no longer works after update

I just updated to 13.0.4 at the end of last week. Today I went to use the Color Range command and it will not select any colors. The Eyedropper tool works fine. Adjusting the fuzziness and other options doesn't make a difference. Nor does selecting multiple instances of a color to add to the selection. Since I use this command regularly, I feel confident that it is a bug with the update and I would love to hear of any possible fixes. Or, is it possible to downgrade back to 13.0.3? I didn't realize how much I used this and it's a major inconvenience.

I feel confident that it is a bug with the update and I would love to hear of any possible fixes.
Some people, when encountering unexpected behaviour in Photoshop, seem overly prone to use the term »bug«.
Have you performed the usual trouble-shooting routines (trashing prefs by keeping command-alt-shift/ctrl-alt-shift pressed while starting Photoshop after making sure all customized presets like Actions, Patterns, Brushes etc. have been saved and making a note of the Preferences you’ve changed, 3rd party plug-ins deactivation, system maintenance, cleaning caches, font validation, etc.)?
Could you please post a screenshot with the pertinent Panels and Dialogs visible?

How do I select a color range like in Photoshop OR copy/move a layer into the mask of another layer?

Hi there,
I'm trialling Photoshop Elements and wanting to use a black and white (grey scale) layer that I've made as a mask in another layer and don't know how to do it in Elements. In Photoshop, I'd do this (there maybe a better way in PS to do it, but I haven't discovered it yet)...
Click the layer i've created that I intend to use as a mask
Select All
Copy
select layer that I want the mask to be applied to
click the Add Layer Mask button (at the bottom of the Layers window)
click the mask icon so it is highlighted (and the image isn't)
switch to Channels view
highlith the Layer Mask beneath the R,G,B layers and make it visible
Paste
make it invisible again
switch back to layers.
This works and retains the full range of transparency for semi transparency and soft edges of the mask etc.
Alternatively, I can select a Color Range, but that doesn't seem to be available in PS Elements.
So, how do I achieve the same result in PS Elements?
Thanks for your help
Jonno

Perfect! Thanks very much R_Kelly. That does exactly what I was hoping to do.
Cheers
Jonno

How to save status bar background color in local settings(Windows Phone 8.1)

I have given the user the freedom to change background colour and save it in local settings. But I am confused on how to save the status bar colour settings because I want to give the user the freedom to choose from 4-5 colours where background of status bar
can be changed.
public static void SaveStatusBarColor()
// get status bar color
var statusBar = StatusBar.GetForCurrentView();
var color = statusBar.BackgroundColor;
// convert color to hex string
var hexCode = color.HasValue ? color.Value.ToString() : "";
// store color in local settings
ApplicationData.Current.LocalSettings.Values["StatusBarColor"] = hexCode;
public static void LoadStatusBarColor()
// get color hex string from local settings
var hexCode = ApplicationData.Current.LocalSettings.Values["StatusBarColor"] as string;
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(hexCode))
return;
// convert hexcode to color
var color = new Color();
color.A = byte.Parse(hexCode.Substring(1, 2), NumberStyles.AllowHexSpecifier);
color.R = byte.Parse(hexCode.Substring(3, 2), NumberStyles.AllowHexSpecifier);
color.G = byte.Parse(hexCode.Substring(5, 2), NumberStyles.AllowHexSpecifier);
color.B = byte.Parse(hexCode.Substring(7, 2), NumberStyles.AllowHexSpecifier);
// set the status bar color
var statusBar = StatusBar.GetForCurrentView(); // Exception Line
statusBar.BackgroundColor = color;
}This is what was suggested to me. Initially the app runs and saves the settings.But when the app is closed and restarted again it crashes.

Hi shriyansh,
Where did you call the method SaveStatusBarColor() and LoadStatusBarColor()?
I have called your SaveStatusBarColor() in the OnNavigatedFrom method and called the LoadStatusBarColor() in the OnNavigatedTo method, it worked very well in my side.
So I can not reproduce your issue.
Here are my code and result, please try to check it:
public class test
public Color colors { get; set; }
public sealed partial class MainPage : Page
List<test> testdemo = new List<test>();
public MainPage()
this.InitializeComponent();
testdemo.Add(new test() { colors = Colors.Red });
testdemo.Add(new test() { colors = Colors.Green});
testdemo.Add(new test() { colors = Colors.Gray});
testdemo.Add(new test() { colors = Colors.Blue });
this.NavigationCacheMode = NavigationCacheMode.Required;
public static void SaveStatusBarColor()
// get status bar color
var statusBar = StatusBar.GetForCurrentView();
var color = statusBar.BackgroundColor;
// convert color to hex string
var hexCode = color.HasValue ? color.Value.ToString() : "";
// store color in local settings
ApplicationData.Current.LocalSettings.Values["StatusBarColor"] = hexCode;
public static void LoadStatusBarColor()
//get color hex string from local settings
var hexCode = ApplicationData.Current.LocalSettings.Values["StatusBarColor"] as string;
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(hexCode))
return;
// convert hexcode to color
var color = new Color();
color.A = byte.Parse(hexCode.Substring(1, 2), NumberStyles.AllowHexSpecifier);
color.R = byte.Parse(hexCode.Substring(3, 2), NumberStyles.AllowHexSpecifier);
color.G = byte.Parse(hexCode.Substring(5, 2), NumberStyles.AllowHexSpecifier);
color.B = byte.Parse(hexCode.Substring(7, 2), NumberStyles.AllowHexSpecifier);
var statusBar = StatusBar.GetForCurrentView();
statusBar.BackgroundColor = color;
statusBar.BackgroundOpacity = 1;
protected override void OnNavigatedTo(NavigationEventArgs e)
LoadStatusBarColor();
protected override void OnNavigatedFrom(NavigationEventArgs e)
SaveStatusBarColor();
private void ChangeColorButton_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
var statusBar = StatusBar.GetForCurrentView();
statusBar.BackgroundColor = testdemo[Convert.ToInt32(Mytextbox.Text)].colors;
statusBar.BackgroundOpacity = 1;
The result:
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Need a Way to Create a Local Group Push via GPO on Windows Server 2003 DC

There is a new requirement to create a new local group on all machines and add all local and built-in administrators. To save time, I would like a GPO to create the new group, along with configuring its members. Any helpful information I found
is for Windows Server 2008 and up.
Does anyone know what I can do with my Windows Server 2003 DC?
Thanks,
Jasmin

> Does anyone know what I can do with my Windows Server 2003 DC?
Since DCs do not have local groups - what OS are your member servers and
clients running? If 2003/XP: Install KB943729
You need _one_ computer running Vista/2008 or higher to edit your GPO.
Martin
Mal ein
GUTES Buch über GPOs lesen?
NO THEY ARE NOT EVIL, if you know what you are doing:
Good or bad GPOs?
And if IT bothers me - coke bottle design refreshment :))

Remotely add Domain User to local group

I've been playing with this for some time, and I seem to be missing something. I am trying to develop a script that reads and XML file containing a list of computers, local groups, and names of domain users (and computers) to be added to the local
groups. I would like to be able to run this from a management workstation.
I've been working from these two posts.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2010/08/19/use-powershell-to-add-domain-users-to-a-local-group.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2008/03/11/how-can-i-use-windows-powershell-to-add-a-domain-user-to-a-local-group.aspx
It appears that the command $objGroup = [ADSI]("WinNT://atl-fs-001/Administrators") only works locally. I have not been able to figure out any format that allows me to get the information remotely. So I figured I would use Invoke-Command
to execute the two lines of code remotely.
Invoke-Command -ComputerName RemoteServer {
$de = [ADSI]"WinNT://RemoteServer/Administrators,Group"
$de.psbase.invoke("Add",([ADSI]"WinNT://Domain/User").path)
(I am trying it first with fixed, valid values - change to variables when I get things figured out.) That gave me the error:
Exception calling "Invoke" with "2" argument(s): "Number of parameters specified does not match the expected number."
+CategoryInfo :NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
+FullyQualifiedErrorID :DotNetMethodTargetInvocation
+PSComputerName :RemoteServer
I need help on what to try next.
Thanks.
. : | : . : | : . tim

I've been playing with this for some time, and I seem to be missing something. I am trying to develop a script that reads and XML file containing a list of computers, local groups, and names of domain users (and computers) to be added to the local
groups. I would like to be able to run this from a management workstation.
I've been working from these two posts.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2010/08/19/use-powershell-to-add-domain-users-to-a-local-group.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2008/03/11/how-can-i-use-windows-powershell-to-add-a-domain-user-to-a-local-group.aspx
It appears that the command $objGroup = [ADSI]("WinNT://atl-fs-001/Administrators") only works locally. I have not been able to figure out any format that allows me to get the information remotely. So I figured I would use Invoke-Command
to execute the two lines of code remotely.
Invoke-Command -ComputerName RemoteServer {
$de = [ADSI]"WinNT://RemoteServer/Administrators,Group"
$de.psbase.invoke("Add",([ADSI]"WinNT://Domain/User").path)
(I am trying it first with fixed, valid values - change to variables when I get things figured out.) That gave me the error:
Exception calling "Invoke" with "2" argument(s): "Number of parameters specified does not match the expected number."
+CategoryInfo :NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
+FullyQualifiedErrorID :DotNetMethodTargetInvocation
+PSComputerName :RemoteServer
I need help on what to try next.
Thanks.
. : | : . : | : . tim
The ADSI commands work remotely as long as you are an administrator on the domain.
Invoke-Command only works on systems set up for WinRM remoting and if you are an Administrator on the domain.
Normally we would use AD and GP to add users to local groups.
Your script is also incorrect. Thisis the correct template.
$remotepc='somepc'
$de=[ADSI]"WinNT://$remotepc/Administrators,Group"
$de.Add("WinNT://Domain/User")
You should never the user to the admin group. It is a formula for disaster.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Color Range doesn't work properly in CS3

Hi there,
I have a problem with CS3. Since a few weeks I can't use properly "Colour Range" feature.
Especially for bright colour the Colour Range doesn't select what I want to select. For example I want to select a bright cloud and can't select it with Colour Range. Of course I checked if there is any information or I have a burn area.
I use several different setting but I still have the problem.
I used 8/16 bit, Adobe RGB/sRGB
At Colour Range I use:
- Sampled colours
- Selection
- Fuzziness: how much I need it
- Selection preview: None
I need help...
Thanks

Possibly you are missing something in the way you apply this command. Here's how I use it to select patchy clouds with ragged edges and continuously varying shades of gray:
Select the eyedropper tool on the Toolbar and on the options bar set the sample size to 3x3.
Activate the Color Range command. Activate the "selection" radio button and choose "none" in the selection preview. In the "select" box, choose "sampled colors".
Set a trial fuzziness of,say,50. Click with the eyedropper on a point in the midst of the color you want to select. That's your "base" color.
Then switch to the "Color Added" (plus) eyedropper, holding the left mouse button down while dragging it over areas deviating from the base color but which you want included.
If there are non-contiguous areas with still different colors you also want to include, release the mouse and move the cursor to those areas before dragging again.
All the while, keep an eye on the dialog box display which shows what you've selected, albeit crudely. If you pick up unwanted colors, switch to the "subtract from sample" (minus) eyedropper and drag it over those areas.
When you think you've got it about right, experiment with the fuzziness slider to see if you can improve things by increasing or decreasing fuzziness.
Don't re-use the plain eyedropper unless you want to start all over again. Optionally, instead of switching among the 3 eyedroppers, you can activate only the plain eyedropper but use it with SHIFT to add or ALT to subtract.

Domain local groups with members from other (same forest) domains?

I'm confused about granting access to a share via a domain local group that contains members from other domains. Consider this scenario:
Joe Smith logs into his own domain (DALLAS.CORP.COM) and his token gets the DALLAS\sales global group.
A share (named sales) in a different domain within the same forest (FORTSMITH.CORP.COM) assigns ntfs modify on its DACL via the FORTSMITH\sales_modify domain local group, which contains the DALLAS\sales global group.
Joe goes to access the sales share...what happens, exactly?
Since Joe logged into a DC in the DALLAS domain (outside the replication scope of the sales_modify group), his token does not contain sales_modify, right? So when he goes to access the sales share, that file server in FORTSMITH checks his token, doesn't
see FORTSMITH\sales_modify in his token, and boom: access denied...right?

Universal group is ok within the same forest but different domain.
Domain local is ok between separate forest (Trust should be in place).
Global is ok for same domain.
See this for more details.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/acefekay/archive/2012/01/06/using-group-nesting-strategy-ad-best-practices-for-group-strategy.aspx
Written by Ace Fecay-DS MVP.
Regards~Biswajit
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