Elliptical Marquee Tool

Is there a way to use the elliptical marquee tool to make a quick selection to the size of the document in Photoshop without dragging it out? For example, maybe double clicking on the icon to automatically select the canvas size.

Not that I'm aware of.

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Elliptical Marquee Tool Blurring in Refine Edge

Hi.
I crop images out of their background, then save them on a white background. I use the quick selection, polygonal lasso, and elliptical marquee tools to select the item.
Recently, when I've finished selecting the item, and I click on refine edge, any part of the image that I used the elliptical marquee tool to select is blurred. The rest of the image is fine. I've been using the tools this way for a few years, and this just started happening recently. I have no idea what, if anything, I did to cause this, and I haven't been able to figure out how to straighten it out.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Noah.

There is a tutorial on the creative cloud about the refine radius tool in the refine edge dialog UI that I can not follow somewhere on planet earth can you help me?
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Moving the Elliptical Marquee Tool

Hi. Really hoping someone can help me with a problem I'm having with the elliptical marquee tool. Having selected this tool and drawn an oval shape on my image, I know I should be able to move the oval image around the screen, using the keyboard arrows (I think), until it frames the part of the image I want framed. However, the keyboard arrows are not working for me in order to shift the oval around. When I press the keyboard arrows, I can see my cursor moving through the Photo Effects icons on the right of the Editor window (Elements 6 version). Does anyone know how I can make sure that the keyboard arrows move the oval around or does anyone know any other way of making the oval move around the image?
Thanks very much

Thanks so much Terri for all your help. IT NOW WORKS!! HURRAH!!
All I did was re-create the preferences file manually then went back in and tried moving the elliptical marquee tool around using the keyboard arrows and it worked fine. Unfortunately, the Ctrl+Alt+Shift still does not work but at least I now know the manual way of re-creating the preference file.
In terms of the other questions you asked:
1. My shortcut key was already set to none.
2. No other keys have been acting up but bear in mind that I have only been using PSE6 for the last 7 weeks as part of my Open University course in the UK so not likely to have encountered much yet.
3. No other programs are causing any problems that I am aware of although I don't use shortcut keys that often apart from ctrl+V and ctrl+C and a few others.
4. I don't have a Logitech mouse so this wouldn't be causing any issues.
Thanks again for all your help.
Sue

The elliptical marquee tool is not on my PSE 11

I am following a tutorial Using Layers in PSE 11. The presenter selects the Elliptical Marquee tool to edit cuts. I do not see the Elliptical Marquee tool in my PSE 11?
thanks

Thanks a bunch and so quick a reply. It is a bit frustrating to be at a place where one can't go forward but what a relief and releas when someone like you comes along with the solution and bingo, I can get going again:)

Rectangule Marquee Tool Does Not Copy (Elliptical Marquee Tool Does)

I am unable to copy and paste using the rectangular marquee tool. When I click and try to draw the dashed outlines, I just get X and Y coordinates. When I switch to the ellipitcal marquee tool, I get the dashed lines and can
copy with no problem. I had been able to use the rectangular marquee tool before. Not sure what happened to prevent it now. Any suggestions? Thanks!

First thing to try is a tool reset:
Benjamin

Using Elliptical Marquee Tool Keystroke

How do I make multiple moves using marquee tool without starting a new shape. When I pick up the pointer and move to another location on the ellipse it opens a new ellipse. I want to continue with the same ellipse that I started. There must be some key I can hold down that allows me to do that. Also, where can I find a list of key strokes in the future.

Hello!
If you hold down the spacebar once you've started the selection, you can move it freely.
A list of shortcuts is available here: http://morris-photographics.com/photoshop/shortcuts/index.html
Look also at Trevor's tips: http://morris-photographics.com/photoshop/tips/tips-interface.html
Follow the Blog of Julieanne Kost: http://blogs.adobe.com/jkost/

Problems with the elliptical marquee tool in CS6/Mac

I have CS6 and did the newest update yesterday. I'm working on Mac OS X 10.6.8. The problem is following:
The elliptical tool doesn't function anymore correctly. If I want to make an ellipse or circle first it looks normal put if I let go the mouse, it changes the shape in another form like square. Who knows whats wrong or how I can handle this?
Thanks in advance. Foto Pitt

How/where do I have to save that?
If you are quite new you may not have customized any Actions, Brushes etc.
But if you have you should regularly save those from the Panels’ fly-out menus or Edit > Presets > Preset Manager.
3rd party plug-ins deactivation -> How/where can I deactivate the plug-ins?
Do you have any plug-ins installed that were not part of the original program installation?
Boilerplate-text:
As with all unexplainable Photoshop-problems you might try trashing the prefs (after making sure all customized presets like Actions, Patterns, Brushes etc. have been saved and making a note of the Preferences you’ve changed) by keeping command-alt-shift pressed on starting the program or starting from a new user-account.
System Maintenance (repairing permissions, purging PRAM, running cron-scripts, cleaning caches, etc.) might also be beneficial, Onyx has been recommended for such tasks.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/onyx.html
Weeding out bad fonts never seems to be a bad idea, either. (Validate your fonts in Font Book and remove the bad ones.)
http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/troubleshoot-fonts-photoshop-cs5.html

Can't find rectangular marquee tool, etc.

I can select the Quick Selection Tool, which then presents the Quick Selection Tool and the Selecton Brush Tool options in the Tool Options bar (bottom left corner). But nowhere is there an option for rectangular marquee tool or elliptical tool. Please help. (This is for Elements 12)

Hi,
You need to be in Expert Mode to see all the tools - the rectangular and elliptical marquee tools share the same place with the tools options used to select which one you want.
Brian

CS4 Opens w/Marquee Tool active

I find it annoying that CS4 opens with the Rectangular Marquee tool active, causing me to switch to the Move tool. I have tried to save a new workspace setup hoping the Move tool would be selected, but that didn't work.
Am I missing something obvious? If not, any suggestions?

Just had another test, now this is strange, if you change to the Elliptical Marquee Tool the select the Move tool. Close and restart allthough the Elliptical Marquee Tool is still showing, it is the Rectangular Marquee Tool that is active!.
If you would like the code here it is...
#target photoshop
if(findCurrentTool() == 'marqueeRectTool' || findCurrentTool() == 'marqueeEllipTool') selectTool('moveTool');
function selectTool(tool) {
    var desc9 = new ActionDescriptor();
        var ref7 = new ActionReference();
        ref7.putClass( app.stringIDToTypeID(tool) );
    desc9.putReference( app.charIDToTypeID('null'), ref7 );
    executeAction( app.charIDToTypeID('slct'), desc9, DialogModes.NO );
function findCurrentTool(){
var ref = new ActionReference();
ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID("capp"), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt") );
var cTool = typeIDToStringID(executeActionGet(ref).getEnumerationType(stringIDToTypeID('tool')));
return cTool;

Photoshop Elements 10 - Marquee Tool not showing eliptical option

The Marquee Tool does not show the elliptical option. I am running on Windows 7. I do not know if the elliptical option was ever there since I am very much a novice and just learning now.
Thanks
Ken

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Where is rounded corner rectangular marquee tool?

Hi,
I've just upgraded from PSE 9 to 11 on my Window's pc.
I can't find the rounded corner rectangle marquee tool in the tool box, which only seems to have two options - the regular rectangle and the elliptical marquee. But I know PSE 11 should have rounded edge option from viewing videos online, etc.
Where is it hiding?
Thanks,

The rounded rectangle is only in the shape tool, always has been. However, you can get a sort of rounded corner effect with the rectangular marquee if you apply a fairly high feather. Maybe that's what you were remembering?

Rectangular Marquee Tool no longer moves

Hi, I have CS2 on Windows XP. For some reason (probably operator error) I can no longer move the Rectangular Marquee Tool in a fixed size mode arond my picture. When I expand it to, for example, 8.5" x 11" it just sits there. I used to be able to expand it, then move it about the photo until I got it where I wanted to do the crop.Does anyone have any ideas what has happened? Also I notice that the crosshairs now have a little bar in the lower right quadrant when I roll my cursor on the photo. Not sure if that is significant. Thanks.

This button enabled? See the screenshot.
:-) miss_marple

Rectangular Marquee Tool (Short cut M)...

I have upgraded to CS5. I cannot access to the Rectangular Marquee Tool with a short cut (M) any longer. M brings up the Eliptical Marquee Tool. Where is the Rectangular Marquee Tool? How can I access?
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Check the units you specified for the fixed size. My guess is that it's set to something larger than your image.
Yes, thanks - I was just about to post a response to my own question. They were cm, rather than pixels!
Cheers
David

Rectangular Marquee Tool screen artifacts

Hi - I have a problem with Photoshop CS3 (version 10.0) on a Windows XP Professional computer. When I try to use the rectangular marquee tool to select an area of any image the selection marker leaves dotted artifacts across the parts of the images over which the selection marker has passed.
I don't get the problem if I use any of the marquee tools and the artifacts are not actually written to the image. It's not runining the image but it is causing some problems when trying to be precise with my selections.
Has anyone seen this problem before? I can provide screen shots if that would be of any help.
Many thanks in advance,
Mitch

Video driver?

Rectangular Marquee Tool is a solid line

The Rectangular Marquee Tool in CS4 has started using a solid line instead of the usual dotted line. Is there some setting to revert to the dotted line somewhere, or has my software just gone haywire? Feather is 0px and Style is Normal.

Hi, using Windows 7.

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