Select tool (similar to Select Color Range) based on Contrast

This would be useful on its on or in conjunction with the Color Range tool. Maybe a beefed up Select Range tool.
Color Range has difficulty with gradients & whatnot. Selecting using Contrast would be a way to overcome this. It would work best if it had some of the same functionality of Levels so that an upper and lower range could be fine-tuned. It would also need to take into account a previous selection made with the Lasso or some other way in order to exclude or include only the parts of the img that are being targeted.

As an example, there is an image of a person that is taken against the sky. I want to select the person only. The sky is a low-contrast area of the img and I want to select everything but that area without actually affecting the img.
Not the sky, but the idea is here. I used brightness/contrast for the 2nd & contrast only on the 3rd img.

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All files, or just this one?
Have you trashed your prefs? see Replace Your Preferences

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Not with placed images. Not ever.
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I have AI 8, 10, and 12 installed on this PC and on a Mac in my studio, so I'm not relying on (my failing) memory.

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Select the objects that are fully enclosed by the marquee (instead of
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Hi Argol,
I comletely agree with "all of" your features requests for cs6.
Regarding the request about the selection tool, I want to precise that it is shared by a huge number of people and we all hope that adobe will listen its customers. Here is an example of how is important to enable the alternative selection method (that is the one used by corel draw and many other tools). A simple selection like this is a kind of nightmare with illustrator (it involves many de-select clicks). Also, in real case scenarios, things are more and more complex and we all know how things can get frustating! :-)

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I thought of changing the color of logo so that it looks refined but green color signifies travel and i can't think of using any other color. It would have been easy to pick other color. For me Green is God. I must use that only. I also need to encorporate small road in it that defines journey to infinity. This tool use to work well before. It's giving me problem for the first time. Please help.

I have managed to do this... Snap to grid helped a lot ! Thank you.. I will now start learning all these things one by and and slowly slowly. Thank you so much Trevor !!!

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has a large object on top, (happens to me often when I have a white plate)
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select all then hide - to test if item is selectable or locked
hide the item on top until you dig down to why you want, make the change, then show all
command click to get past items on top, each click takes you down a layer
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I need to add the selection tool to my Acrobat XI interface.
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Is this box checked in Preferences?
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Whenever I try to select any object I've created, some will show that they can be selected while others are not available to be selected for no apparent reason except at random. This happens regardless if all my layers are unlocked.

I just attempted the UNLOCK ALL option, but I saw that it was unavailable. I'm almost certain that this might be a possible glitch. One of my pieces that was having a lock issue like all the others, has for whatever reason unlocked itself and every object is now selectable. I did nothing out of the ordinary routine for this change to happen.

The selection tools will not select paths.

When objects are selected, the bounding box appears, but the neither the paths or anchor points appear. How do I rectify this? I'm guessing i've accidentally changed a setting but there seems to be little light shed online.
Thanks for your time.

bvnri,
Ctrl/Cmd+H, View>Show Edges.
It is the most likely mishit of all, completely surrounded by other keystrokes; you may have thought you you just repeated one of them because it did not work the first time, and then forgotten all about it.

Color range selection + layer styles

Hello--
Help me if you can!
I have had it on good authority (my photoshop instructor) that color range selection hasn't been working correctly for some time.
I'm using CS2, version 9.0.2 on an IMac os X version 10.5.8.
I am often working with multiple layers that are not similar at all. When I have one layer active and do a color selection, it may also select the color range on inactive layers. Then, if I do a fill, for example, it may affect areas on other layers that were inadvertantly color selected. I know there are ways to ask photoshop to perform a function on all layers, but I don't see this as an option or setting with color range selection. I had started to assume it was sort of like crop, which affects all layers, but when I asked, my teacher says it should only be selecting/affecting the layer that is active.
I found I can deal with this by 'closing the eyes' (making non-visible) the other layers...but that is a hassle and sometimes hides exactly what I need to see.
Then noticed, just lately, that when I use a layer style, it is no longer showing up on my layer palette. Maybe I don't understand correctly, but I thought any layer style addition would show up on the palette under the name of that layer. If I happen to remember that a particular layer used a layer style, I can still click on the layer styles icon and alter it, but it isn't displaying on the layer palette any more--so I cannot toggle or discard the effect simply, and it is hard to know why a layer looks the way it does without that information.
Could be I'm corrupted and need to deinstall/reinstall? Is there something I'm missing about these functions , or something I accidentally changed? I would really appreciate any help or information.

Yes your instructor is wrong, it always selects visible pixels, and always has. You can however create a selection before you go into Color Range, and it will only work within that selection though.
If you want Color Range to work in precisely the same way as it always did in the old versions you need to make sure that you ..
• Highlight a non masked layer and
• Uncheck the somewhat bizarrely entitled "Localised Color Clusters" checkbox
The changes to Color Range happened a few versions ago, to my memory it was with CS4 . The main improvement was that they made it more powerful with the capability to produce better more refined selections. They also unfortunately made the daft mistake of making the command work DIFFERENTLY depending on whether you have a masked or a non masked layer selected. This is not very logical really because it just causes confusion, and doesn't really achieve anything constructive in my opinion. No one who knows what they are doing wants to modify an existing mask using Color Range.

New selection tools problem

another hobbled tool ...
if i select a bunch of clips in the timeline, for instance with the Select All Tracks Forward Tool (tttt), and then wish to deselect a range of clips, with the Group Selection Tool (gg) and the command key ... the group selection tool no longer deselects a range, it just negates the selection already made. i have to deselect one clip at a time ...
i swear this is a new bug. anyone else experience this?
R.

Sorry no, it works fine for me.
Try deselecting with just the selection tool "a"
Trash prefs time?

Path Selection Tool issues

After reading up on some of the problems people are having with the path/shape changes in CC 2014, I haven't seen an exact mention of the problem I am having so here I am.
2 part problem really:
1. When using the Path Selection Tool or Direct Selection Tool, sometimes I am unable to switch to any other tool using a keyboard shortcut, regardless of isolation mode or Active/All layers toggles. I press Z or B or whatever, and nothing happens. I have to click the tool icon to get it to work. This seems to happen randomly.
2. When using the Path Selection or Direct Selection Tool, after a few operations of moving points around, when I move to another layer to work on another shape the shape outline and the handles are not visible. When in All Layers mode, the layer is switched to the new shape as expected and the Properties panel shows details of the shape path but I can't see the outline. The only way I have found to 'fix' this is to draw a new shape or reopen the document or Photoshop itself.
Are these 'problems' just me missing some new way of working brought into the shape tools or is it as borked as it seems?
Thanks

No I have been using CC for about 8 months or so. I updated to CC 2014 a couple of days ago. I have been using the shapes with no issues up till now. The changes to the shape system seemed to bring it closer to illustrator, so it was logical. A change from the past, but I thought I was up to speed with it.
As for keystrokes to reproduce the problems I am having - that is part of the problem it seems kind of random as to when it happens.
When working on a shape, pressing return will turn the outline on and off as expected. Pressing esc will turn it off as expected, double clicking will take it into isolation mode as expected but then sometimes, the whole outline becomes unresponsive and it isn't visible. The shape layer is selected and the layer selection changes as expected when I have All Layers mode on and I click different shapes. The path is also selected in the Path panel. It shows up in the properties window too. Clicking/double clicking the shape, return and esc make no difference. I don't get it its all happening randomly though
Then I have the 'unable to switch tools' problem where shortcuts for different tools stop working. I have to click the tool icon to switch. Drawing a new shape brings it all back As I said in my first post, it could just be me missing something but i'm stumped. At this point i'm going to try a reinstall but I don't think it'll make much difference with something like this.
Thanks for the reply though.

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