Selection with color range based on a channel

I want to select highlights from a channel with the color range ...
I select "hightlights" on the color range window.
Then, which values of the fuzziness and range sliders should I use for selecting highlights equal to the selecting them with ctrl + click on that channel?
Thanks ...

lost,
As I understand this problem, you have a series of numbers in column B and you want to add the last n items (number shown in column A of current row) to the current row. In column C of the current row place the formula:
=ADDRESS(ROW()-A7+1,2)&":B"&ROW()
then in column D your result: =IF(ISBLANK(C),"",SUM(INDIRECT(C)))
pw

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How do I select a color range like in Photoshop OR copy/move a layer into the mask of another layer?

Hi there,
I'm trialling Photoshop Elements and wanting to use a black and white (grey scale) layer that I've made as a mask in another layer and don't know how to do it in Elements. In Photoshop, I'd do this (there maybe a better way in PS to do it, but I haven't discovered it yet)...
Click the layer i've created that I intend to use as a mask
Select All
Copy
select layer that I want the mask to be applied to
click the Add Layer Mask button (at the bottom of the Layers window)
click the mask icon so it is highlighted (and the image isn't)
switch to Channels view
highlith the Layer Mask beneath the R,G,B layers and make it visible
Paste
make it invisible again
switch back to layers.
This works and retains the full range of transparency for semi transparency and soft edges of the mask etc.
Alternatively, I can select a Color Range, but that doesn't seem to be available in PS Elements.
So, how do I achieve the same result in PS Elements?
Thanks for your help
Jonno

Perfect! Thanks very much R_Kelly. That does exactly what I was hoping to do.
Cheers
Jonno

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.

Selection by color range and sampled colors

Hello!
I'm selecting areas using 'Color Range' and I was wondering if there is a way to view/edit the list of sampled colors (I've seen an option to load/save that list, but I'm looking for a simple way to view it inside Photoshop).
Thanks!!

I don't see anything in the interface that does this and I don't know if it is possible with other (external) means. Save and Load simply saves your settings (current choice of Fuzziness, Range, etc.)
The predefined color and tone choices in Color Range are not the equivalent of sampling a color with the color picker but rather calculations based on algorithm such as the one used in the Selective color to find colors based within a certain hue or tonal range.And the available choices give you all possible primary hues.
I'm not sure how practical what you want would be - I can't imagine for what would you need this but if that's what yo want, why don't you create a small image painted with the colors of the list of colors you want to use. Then make sure to have both images opened next to each other, apply Color Range on your original image and sample the colors from the other.

Selecting with colour range doesn't work properly

Well, at least to me it doesn't work properly. If I have elements on seperate levels and I use the colour range option to select the area, it works on all the levels, not just the level I have selected. That's not what I want! I only want it to select the colour range on that one level. The work around is to manually turn off other levels, but on a file with lots of levels, that can be tedious. Can this be avoided? Incidentally, magic wand works only on the selected level, but not colour range (or color range, if you are American).

Aha! You are correct. Layers above the target layer are still being sampled when sampling is at "Current Layer".
That has to be a bug. The Eye Dropper Tool itself does work correctly, though.
I'm about to report another problem, so I'll report this one, too.
Edit: Looking again, I don't think there is a bug.
It seems to not be that the higher layer is seen when sampling "Current Layer", which is correct and the same as when the Eye Dropper Tool itself is use. However, the pixels of the visible composite are then evaluated to determine the regions to be selected. I guess that's correct behaviour and you will have to do the Alt-click on eye trick to completely ignore all other layers.

Lead selection with a tree-based table.

I've created a recursive context node to display contents of a KM folder. The structure has been mapped to a table, which works just fine. I can expand nodes of the tree and display the contents of sub-folders. Great. However, I need to know which backing KM object has been selected via the table. Since this is a recursive structure, using
wdContext.currentXXXX()
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I'm missing something obvious here, but I can't figure out how to get the context element behind the selected row in a table which is displaying a recursive structure.
I can do this with a Tree structure, since you can map the 'path' parameter to the actual context object. However, the Table UI doesn't offset that information (a severe oversight, at least in my mind).
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Thanks Armin, that works great.
Had I finished reading this page:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/60/1f1f056f057d4d962375efd3c92ed0/frameset.htm
I would have found the correct documentation.

Is this type of query possible (select with rows stopping based on match)

I'm trying to write a SQL query and suspect it can't be done. Or at least, I can't mentally grasp it, despite various stabs with subqueries. I've simplified it by changing the metaphor here a little.
Let's say I have a truck in some city (say, Chicago). There are various roads leading out of that city, with routes we'll label according to compass points (N, NE, SW, etc.) Each truck can carry only one shipment. It starts going along its road, and as soon as it comes to a city that needs its shipment, it stops.
Yes, a cooked example, but it's similar to my problem.
Here is a table:
TABLE: truck_routes
scenario (integer - different possible scenarios)
route (NE, SW, etc. - 8 compass directions)
destination (cities along that road)
sequence_number (order in which to go to those cities)
So if I have a trucks in Chicago, I can say
SELECT route, sequence_number, destination
FROM truck_routes
WHERE scenario = 10 (or whatever)
ORDER BY road_out, sequence_number;
And I'd get a report like this:
SE 1 Gary
SE 2 Valparaiso
SE 3 Plymouth
SE 4 Warsaw
NE 1 Michigan City
NE 2 Kalamazoo
NE 3 Grand Rapids
NE 4 Cadillac
NE 5 Traverse City
So far so good. I have another table with a list of cities that need to receive the shipment:
TABLE: cities
scenario (integer - different possible scenarios)
route (NE, SW, etc. - 8 compass directions)
destination (same keys as in truck_routes)
e.g.:
10 SE Valparaiso
10 SE Warsaw
10 NE Cadillac
10 NE Traverse City
Now...the tricky part...how do I rewrite the query above so that after a truck hits a city that needs a shipment (in that scenario) it stops? In other words, I want a report (for all routes) of what cities the truck will stop at - and as mentioned, it stops at the first one it makes a delivery. I don't want to see rows beyond that. So the report would look like this:
SE 1 Gary
SE 2 Valparaiso
NE 1 Michigan City
NE 2 Kalamazoo
NE 3 Grand Rapids
NE 4 Cadillac
Gary shows up because it doesn't require a delivery. Valparaiso (SE route, sequence_number 2) shows up because it takes the delivery. The rest of the Southeast route doesn't show up. Same thing for the NE route.
There are scenarios where I'd actually want to stop at the city just prior to the delivery destination, etc., and of course in the real world it's more complicated, but I think if I could get this model working I could flesh it out into a real-world query.
I can certainly code something in PL/SQL to do this, or do it in application logic - but I'm wondering if there is a way to do it in a single SQL statement? I suspect there's something that could be built with subqueries and sorting, but...I can't quite reach it ;-)

WITH report AS(
    SELECT 'SE' route, '1' seq_num, 'Gary' dest FROM DUAL UNION ALL
    SELECT 'SE' route, '2' seq_num, 'Valparaiso' dest FROM DUAL UNION ALL
    SELECT 'SE' route, '3' seq_num, 'Plymouth' dest FROM DUAL UNION ALL
    SELECT 'SE' route, '4' seq_num, 'Warsaw' dest FROM DUAL UNION ALL
    SELECT 'NE' route, '1' seq_num, 'Michigan City' dest FROM DUAL UNION ALL
    SELECT 'NE' route, '2' seq_num, 'Kalamazoo' dest FROM DUAL UNION ALL
    SELECT 'NE' route, '3' seq_num, 'Grand Rapids' dest FROM DUAL UNION ALL
    SELECT 'NE' route, '4' seq_num, 'Cadillac' dest FROM DUAL UNION ALL
    SELECT 'NE' route, '5' seq_num, 'Traverse City' dest FROM DUAL
cities AS (
    SELECT '10' scenario, 'SE' route, 'Valparaiso' city FROM DUAL UNION ALL
    SELECT '10' scenario, 'SE' route, 'Warsaw' city FROM DUAL UNION ALL
    SELECT '10' scenario, 'NE' route, 'Cadillac' city FROM DUAL UNION ALL
    SELECT '10' scenario, 'NE' route, 'Traverse City' city FROM DUAL
need_a_shipment AS (
      SELECT r.*
          , CASE WHEN EXISTS( SELECT 'Y' FROM cities c WHERE c.route = r.route AND c.city = r.dest )
                 THEN 'Y'
                 ELSE 'N'
            END need_a_shipment
    FROM report r
SELECT route
      , seq_num
      , dest
      , need_a_shipment
FROM need_a_shipment n
WHERE seq_num <= ( SELECT MIN(seq_num) FROM need_a_shipment
                    WHERE route = n.route AND need_a_shipment = 'Y' )
ORDER BY route DESC, seq_num
ROUTE SEQ_NUM DEST          NEED_A_SHIPMENT
SE    1       Gary          N
SE    2       Valparaiso    Y
NE    1       Michigan City N
NE    2       Kalamazoo     N
NE    3       Grand Rapids N
NE    4       Cadillac      Y

Using cs6, I've tried filling a selection that I've made using "select color range" but the new fill gets diffused and transparent in places

Is there a way of turning this "color range selection" into a normal selection?

Yes
With Color Range there can be stray partially selected pixels all over the place. It best to first make the color range selection and with the selection active switch to the rectangle marquee tool and hold the Alt or option key down and clean up the stray pixel by subtracting large rectangle areas. You will stall have partially select pixels in the area you want solid. You can use a trick I use when I work on layers mask. Layer Mask are grayscale channels. When you paint with Black and White with the brush blend mode set Overlay the white and black areas are protected. Only the gray partially select area will change. So You can save your cleaned up Color Range selection as an Alpha Channel and paint with white to turn the partially select pixels in the Alpha channel to fully selected.
To show how the overlay mode works I could just have saved the color selection as and Alpha channel. Switched to the Channels palette targeted the alpha and cleaned up the selection. I chose to show that overlay blend will even work in RGB mode when you paint Black and White.
After I cleaned up the stray pixels I added a an empty layer on top om the image and filled the selection with black then inverted the selection and filled with white to create a Black and white work layer. Grabbed a black paint brush set overlay mode and repeatedly brushed over the image and drove the gray pixels to black. View screen capture in a new browser tan ans scale it to actual pixels. This sits scale upload images poorly.

Select- Color Range- Results in Blue Screen (PC) (driver out of date)

I've been using the CS6 beta about two days. While experimenting with color range I experienced two consecutive blue screen crashes. The first time it happened,I was working with the color range selector and was replacing the selected areas with another color using the paint bucket. About the third time I attempted this, my PC blue screened. The second time, I opened a photo, went to Select>Color Range and got an immediate blue screen crash.
I then went back to CS5 and I've been playing with the same scenario with no apparent problems.
My PC is a store built computer. It consists of an MSI 990-FXA GD80 motherboard, an AMD Phenom 1100t CPU, Asus GTX550 Ti graphics card and 8 gig of RAM. It boots from a 60 gig SSD and my programs reside on a 500 gig hard drive. The OS is Windows 7 Professional 64 bit. CS6 is using the hard drive for its scratch disk and Photoshop is using 4339 mb of the 7232 mb of available RAM - I haven't changed that. I'm running CS6 as administrator because the way it installed, it would only run in that fashion.
One disappointment during the installation was CS6 made no attempt to read my preferences from the CS5 install. That may be covered in another post, I've not yet looked.
Please keep us informed as new betas are released, because I would like some time to work with this puppy before plunking down big bux for the upgrade. As it is now, I'm going back to CS5. I get mighty nervous when my super computer blue screens!
Gerry
gswetsky AT bellsouth DOT net

The GPU is often at root of issues like yours. I've had so many problems with Nvidia drivers for their gaming-oriented adapters (like yours) that I finally went with one of their workstation cards. I have a Quadro card with just enough RAM to make Photoshop happy. The workstation drivers are optimized for reliability, the consumer card drivers are optimized for gaming and that often means they're less stable and reliable with Photoshop.

Giving a component with incremental color range in CSS

Is there a way to use the
background-color : #E6E5E5 to #F0F0F0 ;
which fills my component from #E6E5E5 then incrementing till #F0F0F0.
i can achieve this using a similar type image as background,
but i need to know is that possible in CSS.
Pls help me out with related discussion or topics.

Hi!
If I want to do a selection through color range using selection with highlight tones for example i can't control the tolerance.
I'm using the 14.0 x64 Photoshop CC version on a mac. Scripts are not the point really. See my screenshot (sorry its in french!) i can't control anything.

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.

Color range change in CS4 (why change this?)

another "change" in CS4 i quite dont understand why they did.
in CS3 i was about to sample from the toolbox the forgeground color (black-white) as well as change the foreground color (x)
and then sample from then, ensuring that I was sampling the purest white and black from that channel, now it does not work anymore.
I really feel many changes were done to CS4 were done without consulting (testing?) by heavy users (people that spend 8-12 hours a day with application. Maybe I'm wrong, but it is annoying, even the quick keys for cycling through channels make no sense whatsoever, (command 1, to start from the FIRST channel is so INTUITIVE!!!)

The legacy option that you are looking for in Color Range, is still available by unchecking the strangely named "Localized Color Clusters" - this creates much cruder selections but does it more "purely"- it creates the same selections as before, and still uses the foreground colour as a starting point. Actions created in CS3 and earlier will pick up this option.
I really feel many changes were done to CS4 were done without
consulting (testing?) by heavy users (people that spend 8-12 hours a
day with application.
Yes, many of us are getting this impression especially with the last 2 revisions, although this particular feature isn't really one example. There is a lot of new functionality in Color Range under the hood, and the quality of the selections with "color clusters" on is hugely improved.

Color Range Selection using Lab values

Is there a way to select pixels in Photoshop based on given Lab values? I am using Select --> Color Range with a specified "fuzziness" threshold, but I'd rather make the selection based on specific Lab values instead of random pixels that I choose with my eye dropper. Is there a way to do this in Photoshop, or does anyone know of a plug-in that might do this?
Also, if I end up having to use the basic Color Range tool, I'd like to know what "fuzziness" means. I understand what it does (selects more or less colors based on the threshold around the point you choose with your eyedropper), but what is that based on? A color difference (delta E) value around that point maybe?
I am using Photoshop CS3 v10.0 on a Windows XP machine.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Ellen

It may be helpful to compare the Color Range command with the Magic Wand Tool. A Magic Wand "selection" is 100% opaque and all pixels outside its tolerannce have zero opacity. So the selected pixels are either totally selected or totally unselected. There is no partial selection.
Not so with the Color Range command. The pixel clicked establishes the "base" color. Whereever that exact color occurs in the image, it is totally selected (100% opaque). The degree to which other pixels are selected (their opacity) depends on the Fuzziness setting.
At zero Fuzziness, all pixels other than those with the base color are totally unselected (zero opacity). As the Fuzziness setting increases, pixels with values other than the base value begin to be selected, but not 100%. There is a bell-shaped (Gaussian) curve of opacity centered on the base value and dinminishing on either side of it.
The breadth of the Gaussian curve (let's define that as the color value difference between 50% opacity on the left and 50% opacity on the right is directly proportional (not equal to) the Fuzziness. Double the Fuzziness and you double the breadth. Marching ants appear at the 50% opacity point. But be careful interpreting this because with the Magic Wand, for example, the 50% opacity point occurs at the same point as zero and 100%, there being no gradation of opacity at the edge of a Magic Wand selection.
You need to be aware also that the Color Range command operates in each color channel and the deviation from base value is determined by the most restrictive of the three channels. If a pixel is within Fuzziness limits for one channel but not another, it doesn't pass muster. And, yes, CR uses Lab colors, but you need not be in Lab mode.

Removing a selection area from a color range selection...

I have an icon I am working with and I have used the color range selection tool to select the background however there are some pixels that were selected that are actually on the inside of the icon itself. I want to remove that selected area. I had do I remove the selected are inside the icon? What about adding pixels to the selection area? How would that be done?

Good day!
The shift- and alt-key usually allow Selection tools to be used to add or subract from an existing Selection.
Could you post the image itself?
Because I suspect in a case like this it would be bette to work with a Selection based on channel/s. Maybe as the basis for a Solid Color Layer.
Regards,
Pfaffenbichler

Color Range doesn't work correctly with latest update

as the title suggests, I'm having difficulty using the color range tool properly. It worked perfect just before the most recent update (13.1) and now works very strangely.
It seems to select whatever color it feels like except the one I need. And then it is very very selective if it will even select anything at all. I'm not sure how else to explain this so it is clearer and easier to be understood. I will post the System Info from Photoshop below.
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Possibly you are missing something in the way you apply this command. Here's how I use it to select patchy clouds with ragged edges and continuously varying shades of gray:
Select the eyedropper tool on the Toolbar and on the options bar set the sample size to 3x3.
Activate the Color Range command. Activate the "selection" radio button and choose "none" in the selection preview. In the "select" box, choose "sampled colors".
Set a trial fuzziness of,say,50. Click with the eyedropper on a point in the midst of the color you want to select. That's your "base" color.
Then switch to the "Color Added" (plus) eyedropper, holding the left mouse button down while dragging it over areas deviating from the base color but which you want included.
If there are non-contiguous areas with still different colors you also want to include, release the mouse and move the cursor to those areas before dragging again.
All the while, keep an eye on the dialog box display which shows what you've selected, albeit crudely. If you pick up unwanted colors, switch to the "subtract from sample" (minus) eyedropper and drag it over those areas.
When you think you've got it about right, experiment with the fuzziness slider to see if you can improve things by increasing or decreasing fuzziness.
Don't re-use the plain eyedropper unless you want to start all over again. Optionally, instead of switching among the 3 eyedroppers, you can activate only the plain eyedropper but use it with SHIFT to add or ALT to subtract.

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