*!FLASH!* and then…

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philip.kluss
Jun 15, 2006
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I’m not sure that this is the appropriate newsgroup to post this to, but it should be apparent why I chose it after reading about my problem.

I have a user that does work in Photoshop and has been having a problem where he is using the lasso tool [sometimes for up to an hour(!) before connecting the end points and cutting out whatever he’s lassoed.] and the monitor will flash and it will automatically connect the endpoints. I don’t really know what to blame. I can’t really blame the monitor because although it has the ability to flash, it is simply an output device and thus couldn’t connect the endpoints on the lasso.

I’ve already suggested he stop the marathon lasso sessions and do it in more manageable chunks, but he assures me it affects the quality of the final product to do it in a piecewise fashion.

Has anyone else experienced this or perhaps have any ideas?

Thanks.

-pk
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Jason
Jun 15, 2006
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I’m not sure that this is the appropriate newsgroup to post this to, but it should be apparent why I chose it after reading about my problem.

I have a user that does work in Photoshop and has been having a problem where he is using the lasso tool [sometimes for up to an hour(!) before connecting the end points and cutting out whatever he’s lassoed.] and the monitor will flash and it will automatically connect the endpoints. I don’t really know what to blame. I can’t really blame the monitor because although it has the ability to flash, it is simply an output device and thus couldn’t connect the endpoints on the lasso.
I’ve already suggested he stop the marathon lasso sessions and do it in more manageable chunks, but he assures me it affects the quality of the final product to do it in a piecewise fashion.

Has anyone else experienced this or perhaps have any ideas?
Thanks.

-pk
I agree – it’s not the monitor… I wonder if there’s a limit to the number of points you can specify before some buffer fills up and PS decides that the only course of action is to close the selection. I expect there is.
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Jun 15, 2006
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I’ve already suggested he stop the marathon lasso sessions and do it in more manageable chunks, but he assures me it affects the quality of the final product to do it in a piecewise fashion.

That’s just plain wrong. Besides, chances are very good that he doesn’t need to use the lasso (or other click-click tool).
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philip.kluss
Jun 15, 2006
2,

I would tend to agree with you, but I don’t have a background in graphic design so there’s not a whole lot of weight behind what I tell him in that respect. That’s fine though, it’s his time, not mine. He’s extremely anal when it comes to cropping images. He’ll blow them up to 100000% [hyperbole] and go for days. It’s ridiculous, but I can’t change that.

I didn’t think about the buffer size in Photoshop, but I’ll definitely look into it. Thanks for that suggestion, and I’ll let you know how it goes.

-pk
2 wrote:
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I’ve already suggested he stop the marathon lasso sessions and do it in more manageable chunks, but he assures me it affects the quality of the final product to do it in a piecewise fashion.

That’s just plain wrong. Besides, chances are very good that he doesn’t need to use the lasso (or other click-click tool).
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Tacit
Jun 16, 2006
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I’ve already suggested he stop the marathon lasso sessions and do it in more manageable chunks, but he assures me it affects the quality of the final product to do it in a piecewise fashion.

First of all, doing it in pieces in no way afects the quality of the selection. That’s rubbish; he sounds like he has some strange superstitions about Photoshop.

Now, if you are using the Lasso tool and some other program comes to the front, or some other program opens a modal dialog window, or in some instance some other program launches or otherwise takes focus away from Photoshop, then when Photoshop switches to the background, the Lasso closes. This happens any time Photoshop switches from the foreground to the background.

When the screen flashes, my bet is that it has nothing to do with Photoshop and nothing to do with the monitor. i bet what is happening is that some other program or some other piece of software installed somewhere on that computer is taking the focus away from Photoshop, or possibly clearing and re-drawing the screen. Hell, it’s possible that he has a piece of adware or spyware or some virus or worm that he doesn’t even know about that is periodically stealing focus from whatever program is in the foreground. Regardless, whatever it is that’s stealing focus is causing Photoshop’s lasso tool to snap shot; that happens any time you’re working with the lasso tool and push Photoshop to the background.

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KatWoman
Jun 16, 2006
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2,

I would tend to agree with you, but I don’t have a background in graphic design so there’s not a whole lot of weight behind what I tell him in that respect. That’s fine though, it’s his time, not mine. He’s extremely anal when it comes to cropping images. He’ll blow them up to 100000% [hyperbole] and go for days. It’s ridiculous, but I can’t change that.

I didn’t think about the buffer size in Photoshop, but I’ll definitely look into it. Thanks for that suggestion, and I’ll let you know how it goes.

-pk

is he inadvertently clicking the mouse? it’s easy to do, doneit before but if the guy will look up at lasso options and choose the one with the PLUS sign he can keep adding to his selection indefinitely, what he told you it affects the selection is wrong that is why you have an ADD TO SELECTION option there.
I suspect he is running out of ram or scratch if the image has a million points, there is also an option for that as well.
suggest Russell brown advanced selections tutorial
http://www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html

2 wrote:
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I’ve already suggested he stop the marathon lasso sessions and do it in more manageable chunks, but he assures me it affects the quality of the final product to do it in a piecewise fashion.

That’s just plain wrong. Besides, chances are very good that he doesn’t need to use the lasso (or other click-click tool).
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Jun 23, 2006
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