PSE 10 selection tool.

When I use a selection tool in full photo edit mode, the unselected portion becomes tinted with a reddish overlay. How do I eliminate that feature?

Your probably using the Selection Brush Tool in the mask mode.
Change the mode to selection in the tool options bar.
Photoshop elements has it's own forum here for future reference (your in the full photoshop windows forum)
http://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop_elements

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PSE 12 Selection Tools and their uses.

I have recently upgarded from PSE 8 to PSE 12 and am lost.
How do I find the selection tool that makes circles around the selected area which I then can copy and paste into another image please.
I am seventy seven years old and not computer literate so please if you can give click by click instructions. I could do it with PSE 8 but the selection tool for circles is hiding in PSE 12
Thank you,
Brian.

Click on the rectangular marquee tool in the Tools Panel.
Click on the Circle in the Tool Options.
Hold down Shift while drawing your ellipse - this constrains it to a circle.
You can then Ctrl+C to copy the selection and Ctrl+V to paste into your new image.
Cheers,
Neale
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Is there a selecting tool for doctoring specific portions of an image?

In Photoshop I can use a select tool to outline the specific area I want to work on in a photo. Is there a similar tool in Aperture? I'm away from my own computer, no manual, and my client's Aperture help doesn't seem to respond.
b

Not like PS.
There are plug-ins that allows for editing part of the image. But Ap will create tiff file and plug-in editor will do its thing them saved back into Ap as a version. Or you can simply specify PS(CS/PSE) as an external editor and do what you want to do also.

Need help using the selection tool

Hi all,
I have some strange (to me) occurrences while using the 'quick selection tool'...
Explanation
I'm using PS Elements 11 on a Win 7 (64) PC.
What I want to do is to create a new pic from an existing pic. The existing pic's background is unsuitable for what I want. But the FG is what I need. I thought that selecting the FG object and placing into a new pic would be what I needed using the <quick selection tool>.
To do this, I am trying to use the <quick selection tool>. I've had varying degrees of success using it. One main thing I don't understand & pretty much renders my project useless & undoable, is the fact that whenever I use <refine edge> so that I can refine my edge selection, my pic is immediately lost or taken away. Since I have no idea as to what's happening, I am forced to close the pic (W/O saving changes, of course) & then re-opening the pic. All's well until I click the <refine edge> button again, then, my pic disappears AGAIN!
My guess is that maybe the pic is somehow transformed to a layer or something. But, how can I turn this behavior off and not make my pic disappear??
There are a few more details about this <selection tool> that I'm muddy on. Is there something where I can read more about its use? I would love to know more, but how? Where?
I've now read the online manual part about selection tools. Although it shed some light, I'm still needing more.
I am not a constant user of PSE, rather, I only use it on occasions. Normally, I use its scanning features. I may play around with a few other features, but I also know that PSE offers many other powerful features, I rarely, if ever, use.

This is the Photoshop forum. You want the Photoshop Elements forum:
Photoshop Elements

Need clarification using the selection tool

Hi all,
I have some strange (to me) occurrences while using the 'selection tool'...
Explanation:
I'm using PSE11 on a Win 7 (64) PC.
What I want to do is to create a new pic from an existing pic. The existing pic's background is unsuitable for what I want. But the FG is what I need. I thought that selecting the FG object and placing it into a new pic would be what I needed using the <quick selection tool>.
To do this, I am trying to use the <quick selection tool>. I've had varying degrees of success using it. One main thing I don't understand & pretty much renders my task useless, is the fact that whenever I use <refine edge> so that I can refine my edge selection, my pic is immediately lost or taken away. Since I have no idea as to what's happening, I am forced to close the pic (W/O saving changes, of course) & then re-opening the pic. All's well until I use the <refine edge> button again, then, my pic disappears AGAIN!
There are a few more details about this <selection tool> that I'm muddy on. Is there something where I can read more about its use? I would love to know more, but how? Where?
I am not a constant user of PSE, rather, I only use it on occasions. Normally, I use its scanning features. I may play around with a few other features, but I also know that PSE offers many other powerful features, I rarely, if ever, use.

There are many selection tool and way to extract a subject. There are more way in Photoshop then in Photoshop Elements you should ask over in the Elements forum to get answers suitable for elements users. You may get answers here that are not possible to use in Elements. Photoshop Elements

Selection tools - how to get detail?

I currently have PSE 10, and use the selection tools often (normally the Quick selection). I find them quite frustrating if trying to include detail along edges, for example of a bird with lots of fine feathers extending beyond the body of the bird. I am familiar with the + and - options to add/subtract from the selection, but was wondering if there is a good (easier) way to include all that detail. I usually go to actual pixel size or higher when trying to include the detail.
Also, I have heard that the selection tools are better in versions 11 and 12. Would they help in what I want to do? I'm probably going to upgrade anyway, but may wait for version 13 since that is probably not far away.
Thanks.

You can try the lasso tool, but it can be very difficult to select precisely around feathers, leaves, and fur.
Have you tried selecting with a mask? Here you can use a black brush to hide outside the feathers (in your hypothetical), and then reveal with a white brush if you go too far. The trick is to use the bracket keys (next to the letter P on the keyboard) to change the size of the brush cursor as you navigate around.

Elements 12 hangs with most selection tools. Why?

Elements 12 on MacBook Air hangs up every time a selection tool is selected and clicked once. I must force quit the program and start over.
I just worked with Adobe to reinstall the program, but nothing changed.
They told me I should upgrade to Elements 13 for $79.99. They no longer support 12.
Do you have any idea why the program hangs? Is this a Macintosh issue or an Adobe one? Have you solved this problem for yourself?
Thanks.

Then go to your username>library>preferences and delete:
com.adobe.PhotoshopElements.plist
Adobe Photoshop Elements 12 Paths
Adobe Photoshop Elements 12 settings
and any lockfiles with the same names. To see the user library, click the Go menu in the Finder and hold down the option key and it will appear below the little house for your user account. While you're in there, go to the Saved Application States folder (at the same level as the preferences folder) and delete any for PSE.
Then repair permissions and try again.

Brush tool stops working after I use select tool

So everything is fine until I use the select tool, and then free transform a part of the image. Then my brush and eraser stop working until I save and restart the program. Help please?

In versions of PSE prior to PSE 11, quit the editor, then restart it while holding down ctrl+alt+shift/command+option+shift. Keep the keys down till you see a window asking if you want to delete the settings file. You do.
For PSE 11, go to the editor preferences>general, click this button and restart the editor:

Error in updating ALV field catalog in selection tool for Planning Book

Hi ,
I am Implementing BADI '/SAPAPO/SDP_SELECTOR' to upload Custom Fields Data in Planning Book Selection Window under APO Location Product. These Custom Fields are maintained in Custom Table.So from Table whatever Custom Fields are availabe all the fields needs to be available in for selection. Once selection is done the same data to be uploaded into Planning Book.
This BADI is working Fine upto 4 fields but if any extra fields are added in the table 'Error in updating ALV field catalog in selection tool' error Pop Up is coming. Here i am using Folloowing Methods
1). INIT_OBJECT_LIST
2). F4
3). LOC_PROD_VALUE_LIST
Please help on the same if u have any idea or clue.
Thanks.

Hi Srinivas!
Where did you get your implementation from?
It would be nice if you could debug your code!
For the F4 method, have you seen this note?
Note 544904 - Sample source code f.BAdI /SAPAPO/SDP_SELECTOR ('F4'method)
Also check this note. It contains selection modifications in the BAdI:
Note 376902 - SDP selector: Basis corrections for BADI
I do not know your release and support package in your SCM, but you can find a lot of notes related to this BAdI.
Thank you!
Will
SCM Support Consultant

In version 5, how do I use the selection tool to move objects?

I can use the selection tool to select objects, but when I try to drag it, nothing happens. My workaround is to use the selection tool to select an object, and then use the transform tool to drag the object into its new position. Any help is greatly appreciated.

is your object locked?
Message was edited by: lilia@
... or perhaps your clicking on the content grabber?

Problem with align and Selection Tool.

This is a weird problem which I cannot explain at all.
I am using AI CS3 with Windows XP.
I am having this completely random problem with the selection tool and align pallette I cannot explain.
I have a group of objects and groups of objects I am trying to use the align pallette on.
Sometimes when I select all of the items I want to align, either by shift-clicking each one, or by drag-selecting them I am getting a random behavior where sometimes the align button will move all of the objects COMPLETELY off of the artboard, all the way to the edge of the working area and beyond into the grey area you cannot see.
Normally, this would be caused by a stray point somewhere way off-screen or some other cleanup oriented thing on my part. However in this case, the behavior is random and does not happen every time I hit the align button.
Sometimes it takes items within my grouped objects (lines of text) and moves THEM completely off the work area, leaving the other items in the groups in place. Sometimes the bounding box when I drag-select the items will stretch extremely far off of the work area.
I have even dragged the extra large bounding box, bringing the edge that was once way off screen onto the work area, in outline view, in hopes of finding the stray point or object that could be causing this. However NOTHING appears that can be causing the align to throw all of my objects off-screen.
The random nature of this behavior and the way it sometimes affects my text objects inside of groups leads me to believe it is a program bug and nothing I am doing.
The behavior takes place regardless if I select by dragging or by shift-clicking, and is happening in more than one file, also randomly.
Also, choosing "align to art board" vs. "align to crop area" does nothing to change this behavior.
It is quite irritating. I've been using illustrator since v.88 so I have enough experience to know this is not normal.
Any help with this one would be greatly appreciated.

When this behaviour occurs, are perhaps guides included in your selection?

Text select tool not working properly

When I use the text select tool, it selects columns, not words in a row, which is what I want. It used to work correctly. I am using Acrobat Pro, version 9.0.0.
I tried adding the ALT key, with no good result.

Is it with this specific document o any pdf you work on?
If it was earlier working fine for you, try repairing Acrobat by going to 'Help' menu > Repair Acrobat.
Also make sure you have updated it to the latest patch.
Regards,
Ravi.

How do i change the default hand tool to select tool when a document opens? also how do i get it to open in a single page view instead of 2 pages side by side

how do i change the default hand tool to the select tool when i open a document.
how do i change the view from 2 pages to a single page?

Try setting the check boxes in Edit>Preferences>General for the following:
- Make Hand tool select text & images
- Make Hand tool read articles
- Make Hand tool use mouse-wheel zooming
Adjust these as needed but does it make any difference?

Can no longer use my selection tools - help!

while cutting, copying and pasting, I accidentally clicked on something in the top bar that caused all of the tools that are in the left-hand side (default) of my Photoshop CS 4 workspace (and the picture) to remain a black pointed arrow which is the mouse pointer. I tried exiting from the bridge and photoshop proper, shutting down and restarting my computer but it looks like I screwed up my photoshop.
How can I reset my photoshop to get all of my selection tools back?

Ok I pressed command + alt + shift upon starting photoshop, and this is what comes up (see screenshot) - what do I do now? And about the Photoshop CS 4 patch v11.0.1 - should I d/l this? Will this help me? How to I trash my prefs? How do I start from a new user-account - I didn't even know that I had a user-account?

Can no longer re-size with selection tool

For some reason, I can no longer resize objects with the selection tool. When I click on an element, the handles appear, but remain solid. When I select to scale the item, the whole item moves. Any suggestions?

Cmd(Ctrl)-Shift-B which is the toggle for Show/Hide Bounding Box or maybe Cmd(Ctrl)-H the toggle for Show/Hide Edges.

PSE 10 selection tool.

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