I need to make my marching ants brighter

It seems like all of a sudden my marching ants are dim to nearly invisible as I'm making a selection. I haven't updated my software. They show up in some graphics better than others, and once I've made the selection, they show up white again. Example: I'll be using the rectangular marquee tool.
This happened at the same time that my custom blending options all reverted to the defaults. However, I hadn't made any custom marching ants settings. I don't know why my custon blending options reverted to the defaults, but it's possible that this was triggered by a hard shutdown that I had to do after my trackpad froze.
Computer: Mac OSX 10.6.8
Software: CS5 extended 12.0.1

Yes, I recommend updating to the latest patch level. The auto-updater doesn't always work reliably to let you know an update is available.
You'll need to close and reopen Photoshop to see the GPU change in action.
To be honest, since the release was a year ago (and it's late here right now) I don't remember all the new things that were added to Photoshop CS6 to make it a "must-have" - except for one: If you shoot raw images the Camera Raw 7.x converter, which only works with Photoshop CS6, is well worth having. Conversion quality is that much greater.
-Noel

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How do I make the marching ants bigger so I can see them?

Hi.
I just "upgraded" to Photoshop CC and a new macbook pro on Yosemite.
I have been using photoshop since the 90's and this is the first time Im having serious problems with it.
The "marching ants" are impossible to see when using the magic wand to select.
Im sure there are better ways to select these days- but I have a method to my madness and need to be able to see what Im doing.
And yes my glasses prescription is up to date.
It feels like its a function of black and white imagery and this new screen which though "better" doesn't feel "better"- in fact it makes many things harder to see...
Any advice would be very very much appreciated.
Thank-you
-a

2880 must make your UI look very small. I have a display that supports much higher res but to work comfortably, I drop my screen res back so I can see what I'm doing in PS and other Adobe apps.
OS X Mavericks: Adjust your display resolution
Nancy O.

Help needed to manage 'marching ants'?

Hi,
I am new to photoshop so would welcome any offers of help to the obstacle that I currently have on CS4. -
I have been trying to cut an image from one picture so that I can paste it into another background. After trying to use the 'quick selection tool' to get the marching ants around the outer of the image that I want to remove, after approximately 25% of the way through and looking like I will succeed, the ants then move inside the image and from here despite trying to get them to go where I want by holding down the ALT or CTRL (I can't remember which) and left mouse button.
Is there an easier way to do this, or is this way just hard to master? Having spent numerous hours trying to achieve my goal, I have come the forum where I am hopeful of finding some help.
Many thanks

Sometimes you have to select small things in pieces. Keep in mind that the Quick Selection tool by default (per a little button on top of the Photoshop main window) adds to a previous selection, but if you hold the alt key down it will subtract. You don't have to do it all at once.
So if in one stroke you don't select enough, do it again to select a little more. If in the next stroke it selects too much, hold down Alt and brush over the part you don't want selected. With a little patience you'll get the selection just right.
Sometimes it's useful to "train" the Quick Selection tool by holding down Alt and brushing over the parts you don't want selected first.
-Noel

How do you make marching ants selection?

Does anyone know how to produce the "marching ants" effect for selecting sections of an image/picture?
Thanks,
Everyman

English? How about the universal language:
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class MarchingAnts extends JComponent {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          JFrame f = new JFrame("Marching Ants");
          f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
          JComponent app = new MarchingAnts("Only a test");
          f.getContentPane().add(app);
          f.setSize(200,200);
          f.setVisible(true);
     private float dashPhase;
     private String text;
     public MarchingAnts(String text) {
          setOpaque(true);
          this.text = text;
          Timer tmr = new Timer(100,null);
          tmr.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
               public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {
                    ++dashPhase;
                    repaint();
          tmr.start();
     protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
          super.paintComponent(g);
          Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g;
          g2.fillRect(0,0,getWidth(),getHeight());
          g2.setPaint(Color.WHITE);
          Stroke stroke = new BasicStroke(1.0f, BasicStroke.CAP_BUTT,
               BasicStroke.JOIN_BEVEL, 0.0f,
               new float[]{4, 2, 6, 2},
               dashPhase);
          g2.setStroke(stroke);
          g2.drawRect(50,50,100,100);

What happened to the "marching ants" in Photoshop CS5?

When I use the lasso tool and lasso an object, it does not show the dashed lines,
aka marching ants, until I let go of my mouse. Since I can not see the lasso outline,
it is hard to tell when I get back to the beginning. This issue also occurs with the
crop tool and other tools. It does not show the outline until you let go. This is not
good.

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Rothage wrote:
I sent a similar post here; I have had the same settings in preferences for years (with GL), and the same video card, and the "Cntrl H" does not change the "SOLID" outline to marching ants -- it use to toggle them on and off, but they are NOT there to toggle -- only SOLID line around the selection.
Rothage, what video card do you have?
The display driver, along with your video card, implements OpenGL, which has much complexity and many different versions and options.
If you've had the same video card for years, and you haven't changed anything, it almost certainly needs a driver update, if not a complete replacement. It depends on how many years, but video cards that run Photoshop well with OpenGL acceleration have only been available for 3 or 4 years, and even today driver updates are being released that enable OpenGL functions not previously available.
Things move on. Photoshop CS5 is using OpenGL differently than its predecessor, and it may turn out (depending on what video card you have) that to get the most out of the very latest Photoshop you'll need to upgrade to one of the very latest video cards. The good news is that cards that run Photoshop very well can be had for well under $100 nowadays.
I suggest, at the very least, visiting the web site of your video card maker, and updating to their latest driver release.
You should also experiment with Photoshop's OpenGL advanced preferences, in the Edit - Preference - Performance menu.
-Noel

Why do marching ants go away?

I am trying to use a luminosity selection, but when I add a curves layer, the marching ants go away. I go to the channels and control click the RGB thumbnail to make the selection, then save the selection and name it. I then move over the layers panel and click on the adjustment icon (top or bottom of the panel) to create an adjustment layer. A mask is created, but the marching ants stop and the selection is not active. I have to right click on the mask that was created and select "Add selection to mask" to get the ants back. Shouldn't the selection stay active?
Thanks,
Jim Hodder

When you add an adjustment layer when there is an active selection the active selection is added as a layer mask on the adjustment layer and the active selection is deselected. If you want the ants back Crtl click on the Adjustment layer's Layer Mask. Why do you still need them the adjustments is masked by the selection? You can also run levels and curves on the Mask to adjust the effect the selection has,

Marching Ants? I have solid line...

Whenever I make a selection with the lasso tool, marquee, etc... literally anything that should show "marching ants" I get a solid black line - hard to read against black, obviously. Anyone know why? I am hoping there's a preference somewhere to revert back (to the past 15 years of experience with the) marching ants... Thanks!
Using an intel 15" Macbook (white), CS5, OS 10.6. I can provide more system info if needed.

BAM! Holding down Command+Option+Shift did the trick immediately after restarting PS. Resetting the tool (right click on the tool in the option bar) did not work.
To be perfectly honest, I can't say if it did that from day one. I feel like it had the marching ants, and I must have fat fingered some quick key to change it. The interface was so different from CS3 (which is what I was using previously), I wasn't aware of when it changed. For instance, during panning, there's now inertia... Not a fan, but maybe it will grow on me.
Thanks for the quick and accurate answer, PECourtejoie!
(if it makes any difference at this point, yes, I am running OpenGL... "Basic" mode is the only available option)

HOW LONG TIME YOU NEED TO MAKE GPS TO WORK WITH OV...

Question to NOKIA:
HOW LONG TIME YOU NEED TO MAKE GPS TO WORK WITH OVI MAP 3.1 in N97?
On all N97 I know and as you can read here in forum the GPS doesn't work usable in N97 and with MAP 3.1.
I believe that this is a software problem because often I get a GPS signal inhouse and in the wood, but from one second to the other N97 lost the GPS signal. And this in the best weather condition under free sky. Sometimes gps signal works for 15 minutes, then the signal will drop every minute or so.
The current position on map is shift (past) abaout 40-50 meters from the real position, so its unable to use.
The calculated speed is always changing between 0 and the current speed.
I have updated phone to de newes software and firmware also to ne newest maps also has hard reseted and reformatet and the problem ist still the same. If I switch off the option "Maps improvment" (which SENDS DATA TO NOKIA!!!) the the drop outs are fewer. But evreytime the position on maps is shift about 40-50 Meters from right position. Is there a mistake in calculation the position? Also the speed is jumping sometimes from 0 to x and back.
CAN NOKIA TELL US WHEN THIS BUG WILL BE FIXED, AND CAN NOKIA OFFER US A REFUND.
I have payed a lot for N97 and alot for the navigation licence and a lot for accesoires and a lot for the traffic security assistance. So I want a working phone! I dint have payed money for e alpha-stadium phone.
If this is realy the quality of nokia phone, then It is the latest phone I have buyed from nokia.
By the way, the phone has many many many many other bugs as described in this forum.
Really bad work NOKIA! :-(
I was so excited with my N95 and now this mess...
NOKIA please answer us forum members, what you plan to do with the N97 bugs. When we can hope that the bugs are gone? Otherwise I will return my phone and want my money back and I sue for compensation.

I have no word to disagree with you and hoping that Nokia soon will make some press statement or something else to tell us what they do with their flagship, sorry bugship Nokia N97.
Could be a shame recognize errors, but it's worst not to say nothing ant let the bad news of Nokia N97 spread for internet even if they want to sell a Nokia N97 Mini in the near future.
I understand and supose that we will no have no new version till september because we are in the last week and july and the activity in august decrease really high... but at least someone of Nokia could tell something about this problems and if it's possible all the other problems.
Why Nokia Beta Labs Forum there is a direct contact with Nokia workers, and in discussions is relly rare to find?
Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is a mistery.
Today is a gift.

What happened to the ability to hide the "marching ants" (CTRL/CMD H) in Photoshop? I cannot view the edges of my selection with the marching ants in the way!

I have been using Photoshop since version 2.5 when it came on 16 floppy disks. In all of the versions I've purchased over the years (many) up to CS3, I have always been able to use CTRL+H (Windows) or CMD+H (Mac) to hide the "marching ants" selection outline. This is immensely useful when making all sorts of adjustments where the edge of the selection must be viewed while "fiddling with the knobs" (so to speak). Without being able to hide the selection boundaries ("marching ants"), I often have to make a best guess, undo the selection, get bummed that the edge isn't what I want, then have to undo, reselect, try again... over and over. This is such a SIMPLE feature, but the lack of it is driving me crazy. I searched HELP, but it didn't live up to the promise. If there is a way to hide the marching ants, where is the menu item, and what is the shortcut?

You can assign Ctrl/Cmd H to hide Selection Edges (Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts) only, if you don't want to hide everything, but you will be warned if some other function has the shortcut.

Selection outline is black line instead of marching ants?

Hi,
I'm making a selection using the Quick Selection tool and the outline is a black line, not the usual marching ants. I also tried drawing a shape with the rounded rectangle tool to make a manilla folder, so the tab had to overlap. I could not get the black line on the overlapping tab to go away. Is there any way to change this? How did it happen in the first place?
Thanks,
Kelly

I am not certain I understand you but I think you are using one of the shape tools which will create a shape layer and the shape is a path.
In order to make the path a selection you go to the Path panel and while the path is selected with the Path Selection Tool (Black Arrow) or selecting the path in
Path panel go to the bottom of the panel and hit the icon to make the path a selection as show or command or control click on the path in the panel.
Or you can right click or control click on the path in the document window and choose to make selection from the contextual menu.
I see you used the rounded rectangle tool so you are using a shape tool.

Whenever I select something, for example, I cannot see the marching ants selection until I either scroll up or down or zoom in or out. This occurs whenever I paste an image as well--nothing shows on screen until I scroll up or down or zoom in or out. Why

Whenever I select something, for example, I cannot see the marching ants selection until I either scroll up or down or zoom in or out. This occurs whenever I paste an image as well--nothing shows on screen until I scroll up or down or zoom in or out. Why is this?

Ap_Compsci_student_13 wrote:
ok sorry but doesn't sscce say to post the whole code?the first S is Short, and yes, it needs to be all the code needed to illustrate the problem and let use reproduce it. If you were developing a new Web framework, your example might be short, but for a student game it's very long.

Photoshop CS4 and the mysterious vanishing marching ants...

About ten minutes ago, as I was cropping photos in Photoshop CS4, the marquee tools suddenly lost their marching ants.
Now, when I click on the rectangular marquee tool and move the cursor to select an area, the outline of the selected area is invisible - until I let go of the mouse, when it suddenly appears as a solid line.
I assume I must've turned the marching ants off somehow by mistake. How do I turn them back on?
A swift web search suggests that I can hit Control+H or Command+H to turn the marching ants on and off. Neither of these work for me.
Other suggestions I've found are to 'reset' the tool (how?) - or install a new video card, which surely can't be an issue in my case. I have not installed any updates - this literally happened minutes ago, in mid-job.
I'm using a Mac, OSX 10.8.5 if that makes any difference…
There MUST be a simple 'click on such-and-such' solution. Thanks in advance if you know it!

Slight update - I have now discovered how to reset tools in Photoshop. Basically, I did what the video in the link below suggests.
It didn't make any difference.
When I selected the rectangular marquee tool for resetting, a message in the box said 'No presets defined for current tool' - which presumably means there was nothing to reset. That would explain why it didn't work, then.
So if the marquee tools did not have any presets, why did the marching ants turn off - and how do I get them back?
How to Reset the tools in Photoshop « Photoshop

CS4 selection marquee marching ants - bug

In Photoshop CS4 tryout in Mac OS X 10.5.5: Selection marquee is incorrectly drawn one pixel to the left of the actual selection. Simply create a new document, like 800 x 600 pixels, then select all (Command+A). The "marching ants" selection marquee is shifted one pixel to the left of where it should be. Can anyone confirm?
I'm unsure how to report this to Adobe. They don't make it very easy.
-a

Well, since it appears as if a pixel is being split by a marquee selection, and since by definition a pixel
cannot
be divided, then it's a display anomaly.
What you'll have to figure out is what region the marquee actually defines when you see what appears to be a line of marching ants running through the center of a pixel. Does the "partial" pixel end up inside or outside of the selection?
Then again, depending on the type of work being done, it may not really matter much, from a visual standpoint.

Transforming pen tool selections into marching ants

I have a PS issue that is bewildering to me:
I am creating a mask for a purse that has a chain link strap. I used the pen tool to make a selection around the outside. Then, I made a second selection on the inside part of the strap. Next, I went to paths and loaded the selection so that I can transform it into a mask.
The outside selection loaded just fine, and is currently part of my mask.
I still have the pen tool line around the inside of my purse strap, but I cannot get it to load into marching ants.
Is there something I am missing?
Thanks!
Ellen

After you make the paths select the path selection tool and set the option to Exclude Overlapping Shape Areas, then the complete
paths should load as a selection.
MTSTUNER

What do I need to do when I receive the message ". . . your startup disc is full, you need to make some room by deleting some files"

I hope I'm in the right place since I was sort of redirected here Recently I have been receiving the message that my startup disc is full and that I need to make room by deleting files. At first I received the message when I left my computer unattended with my virtual machine on, using VMWare Fusion to run Windows. Recently though, I got the message when I left my computer unattended for about 6 hours without the virtual machine running. As an aside, I get extremely nervous when anything freezes VMWare because it is usually a nightmare to get back into Windows if I can at all without calling Tech Support. This new message however, appeared without the virtual machine active, so I was relieved that VMWare most likely was not the cause. After reading a number of Tech Support articles and Community discussion questions and answers, I started wondering if iTunes or the SMC firmware or a combination thereof may be causing the problems. Mind you I know nothing about the SMC stuff because as I said, I am really new to Mac and know very little about computer code or processors or any of that stuff. But I do know that iTunes has recently been giving me some trouble, such as opening on start up and I can't figure out why and messing around with my iTunes libraries. I also read about the SMC firmware and the computer's sleep cycle so that sort of made sense. But I seriously need advice from someone a lot smarter than me. So, before you ask, both iTunes and my SMC firmware are up to date. I'm running a mid-2007 iMac Intel Core 2 Duo Processor with 2.4 GHz of speed.
You may not need all this junk, but in case you do, since the message tells me to make room and delete files, here goes. Now, if I need to make space and delete files, this is where I get confused and it's probably very simple but I'm still a relatively new Mac user and I still can't seem to find all the info about my Mac! I'm not exactly sure how much space I have left on my hard drive. I had to replace my hard drive last December and the invoice says it is a 500 GB 7200 SATA hard drive. For some reason I thought I had more than that. Regardless, System Profiler shows 10.26 GB currently available, 499.76 used; I assume that the used portion includes my partitioned drive that has my virtual machine on it? I may be using the wrong language when calling it that but that's how I understand it as a "partitioned drive". Now, when looking at the System Profiler, under Volumes, Capacity 209 MB writable diskOs1 - I think this my Virtual Machine. I also have three Western Digital drives that I use for Time Machine and for pictures and music; however, as I said, I am still new with Macs and do not fully understand the file structure so there may be pictures on my Mac hard drive that are duplicated on 1 or more of my WD drives but I don't know how to find them or if I do, I'm afraid to delete them. Of these WD external drives, 1 is 500 GB and is full with Time Machine backups; the 2nd WD drive is 3 TB and has 2.18 TB available and is currently being used for Time Machine backups; the final WD drive is 1 TB Firewire and currently has 694.33 GB available.
Any help would be appreciated. Please forgive any inaccurate terms or mis-statements of terminology as I do not really know what I'm talking about as far as the pieces and parts of the operating system; I'm just trying my best to describe what I see.
One more piece of advice that I would appreciate would be recommendations about a good file cleaner, for duplicates, messy file structure, space utilization software; it also needs to be idiot proof software. I have a trial version of Appdelete that I never really used and I have the purchased version of Tune Up My Mac that I haven't spent much time with because I'm afraid I'll delete something I shouldn't
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Memalyn

Hi Memalyn
Essentially, the bare issue is that you have a 500GB hard drive with only 10GB free. That is not sufficient to run the system properly. The two options you have are to move/remove files to another location, or to install a larger hard drive (eg 2TB). Drive space has nothing to do with SMC firmware, and usually large media files are to blame.
My first recommendation is this: download and run the free OmniDiskSweeper. This will identify the exact size of all your folders - you can drill down into the subfolders and figure out where your largest culprits are. For example, you might find that your Pictures folder contains both an iPhoto Library and copies that you've brought in from a camera but are outside the iPhoto Library structure. Or perhaps you have a lot of purchased video content in iTunes.
If you find files that you KNOW you do not need, you can delete them. Don't delete them just because you have a backup, since if the backup fails, you will lose all your copies.
Don't worry about "cleaners" for now - they don't save much space and can actually cause problems. Deal with the large file situation first and see how you get on.
Let us know what you find out, and if you manage to get your space back.
Matt

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