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I’m taking an internet class in Photoshop for scrapbookers at Jessica Sprague’s site (very good, by the way, if any scrapbookers are looking at this). She is using CS3 to teach the course and I am using CS4 to take it.
Here’s the discrepancy. When she draws a circle on an image by holding down shift/alt with the elliptical marquee tool, she starts the circle from the center of the circle but from the edge of the image. When she lets go of the mouse, her circle remains drawn and suspended out of sight off the image and she’s able to move the circle around on the image. When I let go of the mouse in CS4, the selection commits itself to the image and I wind up with a fixed selection in the shape of a polygon with one completely rounded side. When I move the selection, the straight edges move with the curved edges, making it impossible for me to do what the teacher wants me to do. I found a workaround for it by moving the image temporarily onto a much bigger new file, but I–and other students in the class–are really curious about how to make this work as our teacher does. One of the other stumped students just suggested to me that this might be because we’re working in CS4. Any ideas? Thanks so much for your help; it is often a great comfort to know this forum is here!
Sharon
Here’s the discrepancy. When she draws a circle on an image by holding down shift/alt with the elliptical marquee tool, she starts the circle from the center of the circle but from the edge of the image. When she lets go of the mouse, her circle remains drawn and suspended out of sight off the image and she’s able to move the circle around on the image. When I let go of the mouse in CS4, the selection commits itself to the image and I wind up with a fixed selection in the shape of a polygon with one completely rounded side. When I move the selection, the straight edges move with the curved edges, making it impossible for me to do what the teacher wants me to do. I found a workaround for it by moving the image temporarily onto a much bigger new file, but I–and other students in the class–are really curious about how to make this work as our teacher does. One of the other stumped students just suggested to me that this might be because we’re working in CS4. Any ideas? Thanks so much for your help; it is often a great comfort to know this forum is here!
Sharon
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