"Quick Selection" and Patterns

the "quick selection" in my Photoshop CC will only open with a - minus sign.  How can I get it to open with the + sign?  Also, there are virtually no patterns in the pattern presets file.  Can I get more and how?
nhskier

Have you tried googling »photoshop patterns«?

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    "Map of the entire planet, eh?"
    Na, just a .5ft pixel res mosaic of Presque Isle PA. Lake Erie needs a bit of a touch up and I thought it would be nice to have at it in one file. Looks like I'll have to do it in pieces or not use quick select?
    "24 GB of RAM isn't really a lot for editing a 14 GB file."
    That's all that will fit in this box, and I'm stuck with it for 3 years unless the company has an extraordinary year.
    File info - 8000x6400px, 8bit srgb, 9 layer PSB with about 1/3 of the image area being white and transparent pixels. When open and doing nothing it's taking up 2 scratch files totaling around 68gb.

  • I am using the pattern stamp tool. when i select my pattern it adds a hatching to teh source pattern and copies that hatching to the destination image

    I am using the pattern stamp tool. when i select my pattern it adds a hatching to the source pattern and copies that hatching to the destination image

    Please post screenshots to illustrate what you are talking about.

  • Quick selection tool doesn't snap to to the nearest area. Working more like a lasso tool and the add layer button doesn't seem to creat the cutout that it should.

    Quick selection tool in elements 13 doesn't snap to the nearest border area of the photo. Works more like a lasso. Also the add layer button when clicked on only brings up a black layer, not a black mask with a hole where I just cut.

    Which OS are you working on?
    Please try resetting your tools from Photo Bin flyout menu.
    1. Open Photo bin.
    2. Click on Fly Out menu
    3. Click on option Reset all Tools
    4. Relaunch Editor13
    and see if it helps.
    Thanks,
    Anwesha

  • Can I resize a Quick Selected image so it fits when I cut and paste it on a different background.

    Can I resize a Quick Selected image so it fits when I cut and paste it on a new background? I am trying to take a photo of someone and place it on a different background. The Quick Selected image is too big when I paste it on the background. You can only see a small portion of the persons head.

    Open the photo, then go to Image>resize>image size. Read what the resolution is in px/in.
    Get out of this screen. Then use one of the selection tools to select the person, go to Edit>copy to put it on the clipboard
    Now, go to File>new>blank file. Enter width & height, and the same resolution value.
    Go to Edit>paste. The person will be on a separate layer. Use the move tool to position, and, to resize with the corner handles, if necessary
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  • White balance selections, Quick Develop and Develop...let's talk

    One thing that isn't well-known is that the adjustments in Quick Develop and the adjustments in Develop are *fundamentally different* from each other.
    Develop is basically designed to provide *absolute* adjustments to RAW images. It can be used for JPEGs too, but in that case, the white balance setting is not absolute as it's already been corrected in-camera. So the WB settings are meaningless since you don't know where to begin and the temperatures are removed for the same reason. You just start where you are and get warmer or cooler.
    Quick Develop is designed to provide *relative* adjustments to all images. What this means is, if you have many images selected and hit the right exposure arrow ">" you'll increase the effective exposure of all of those images from wherever they are now to that plus 1/3 stop. If you hit the ">>" you'll get 1 stop increments.
    Since QD is always making *relative* adjustments, it may be reasonable to assume that you have a known, corrected starting point from which to make relative adjustments. That may be why the daylight and other options are available in QD. I personally think this is a bad assumption as you don't know what corrections have been applied in-camera. Thus, I think those options shouldn't appear in QD just like they don't in Develop.
    Comments?

    The relative vs. absolute of the QD vs. Dev modules is something I'm not familiar with LR enough to dispute. However isn't the point of LR's non-destructive nature, that all actions on an image are relative to the initial baseline, whether it is a RAW or JPG (or Other).
    Granted applying a preset WB set of values against a JPG does not make a lot of sense in the development of a repeatable workflow, but if a set of WB values improves a JPG image, who cares. Its all non-destructive and I can reset at any time.
    I tend to not like operating in applications that are too stringent in keeping me walled into the "right" way of doing things. Particularly based on the super intelligent decision of the software developer because they know how it is supposed to work. (I have license to berate this group because it is my vocation) Changing the user interface from one module to another (if they both do the same thing) or from one file type to another is not a good thing. Consistency is paramount to user freindliness. If indeed the QD and the Dev modules work differently then it is expected that the controls be labeled differently to express this difference. If a selection is detrimental to the image or will cause application issues it is better to leave the selection visible (for consistency) and disable it (gray out) to keep it from being selected.
    The abreviation of White Balance: to WB: in the application is also bad form. It is jargony and does not assist new users to understanding. Screen real estate is scarce and I understand the inclination to do this, but there is a cost.
    - Morey

  • When working with quick selection tool (and not only) the whole psd file gets damaged.

    Hello there,
    Since I first tried Photoshop CS6 on PC I encounter the following problem: when I use quick selection tool at some point the selection gets completely random and I see parts of my artwork disapear. Even after closing the file without saving the changes I see the artwork completely corrupted, without any possibility to recover. As if parts of the image were deleted.
    The problem persisted after I changed to Creative Cloud on Mac (I'm running OS X 10.8.5.)
    I have just seen that it also happens when I work with regular layer masks.
    I desperately need to fix this problem because I cannot keep using hours of retouching work again and again.
    Hope someone can help.
    Cheers
    Julia

    I am also having the same exact issue. This is the third time this has happened in about six months. I use the quick selection tool and I see a alpha mask that looks truncated and it show random parts of the image in the mask which has nothing to do with the selection. But the worst part of this is that my retouching layer the only other layer comes back completely empty even if I try to save the file in various other file types like tiff and it comes back empty. I'm losing a lot of retouching time here. I also hope some else has an answer.
    Thanks
    Mike

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