How To Change The Color Of The Selection Area ?????

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Ira_Paris
Nov 17, 2003
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Would anybody be so kind as to tell me how to change the color of the selection area when using the rubber stamp tool. Depending on the color of the image that I am working on, I can not distinguish the area outlined by the tool.
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Ira
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YrbkMgr
Nov 17, 2003
Hmmmm… I’ve been using photoshop since 5.5 (I’m in 7 now) and I’m sorry, but I don’t know what you mean. Can you give a step by step example of what you’re trying to do and the problem?
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John_Slate
Nov 17, 2003
could he mean making the brush edges visible with the caps lock key?
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Ira_Paris
Nov 17, 2003
Here’s the scoop. I open an image in PS7. Caps lock is off. Click on the clone tool. The size of the tool is defined by a blue circle. When I am cloning from a color the same as the blue circle, I can no longer see see the tool, because of the similar colors. The tool blends right in. Is there a way to change the color of the tool area?
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monden
Nov 17, 2003
I think he’s referring to the Rubber Stamp Effect in Photoshop Elements 2.

Ira,
Rubber Stamp is a preset action that creates a rubber stamp effect out of an image, etc. There is no adjusting the color directly. I suggest you run the effect on a duplicate of your image (since it requires flattening the layers…) and then apply an Enhance>Adjust Color>Hue Saturation to change the final product color. Other than that, I don’t think you can change it.

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Would anybody be so kind as to tell me how to change the color of the
selection area when using the rubber stamp tool. Depending on the color of the image that I am working on, I can not distinguish the area outlined by the tool.
Thanks,
Ira
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YrbkMgr
Nov 17, 2003
The size of the tool is defined by a blue circle.

I have never seen this. In Edit|Preferences|Display & Cursors, I have painting cursors set to "Brush Size". The result is a hollow circle, not a colored one. On some gray backgrounds the cursor will get lost, but not usually while cloning, and never while over a colored area.

I have no idea how you are getting a blue circle, sorry.
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LenHewitt
Nov 17, 2003
Ira,

Initially the tool will be a circle indication the brush size. That circle outline will be grey, the shade of grey depending upon the background it is over.

Once you have ALT+Clicked, the Source cursor will become a cross and the Destination cursor the circle, but if it is blue you have a severe monitor mis-calibration – It should be grey and isn’t changeable.

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