Contracting a selection

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Larry
Apr 26, 2005
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Why can’t I contract a selection if I have the whole image selected? I’m using ps 7.0, can I do this in CS/CS2?
If not.. why not? 🙂
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Shopaholic (nospam
Apr 26, 2005
Hi

Try using select>modify>border…

type in the value of the required contraction & the marquee alters.

any use?

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:19:29 +0000 (UTC), "oli" wrote :
Why can’t I contract a selection if I have the whole image selected? I’m using ps 7.0, can I do this in CS/CS2?
If not.. why not? 🙂

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edjh
Apr 27, 2005
oli wrote:
Why can’t I contract a selection if I have the whole image selected? I’m using ps 7.0, can I do this in CS/CS2?
If not.. why not? 🙂
That’s just the way it is. Use Transform or Transform Selection.

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Darrel Hoffman
Apr 27, 2005
Why can’t I contract a selection if I have the whole image selected? I’m using ps 7.0, can I do this in CS/CS2?
If not.. why not? 🙂

The Contract Selection tool works by going to any place where there are unselected portions of the image and expanding them. If there are NO unselected portions, there’s nothing to expand. Just like the Expand Selection does nothing when you have nothing selected. I guess "Contract Selection" is something of a misnomer. A more accurate description of the tool would be "Expand Unselection", but that would just be confusing.
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Larry
Apr 28, 2005
"Expand Unselection", but that would
just be confusing.

Ahhh.. but that does make sense non the less.

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