Selecting/modifying

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Ms_Innocent
Jul 26, 2007
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For some reason my modify doesn’t work. I have Photoshop cs3. I am trying to expand some text, I have the text selected, I go to the select tab, but modify is not highlighted. Its acting like I don’t have anything selected :/ But I do. I usually use fireworks, but I am following a tutorial that is for Photoshop, so i am not as familiar with Photoshop. Am I missing something? Any help would be appreciated.
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Ed_Hannigan
Jul 26, 2007
The items under Select>Modify only work with active selections (marching ants) not "live" text.

This is true of the entire Select menu. It is specific to pixel based selections.
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Ed_Hannigan
Jul 26, 2007
It might help if we had a better idea of what you are trying to do.
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Ms_Innocent
Jul 26, 2007
< http://www.crunked-designs.com/tutorials.php?subaction=showf ull&id=1100060903&archive=&start_from=&ucat= 1&amp >;

That tutorial lol. I don’t know what active selections and "live" text means. :/
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chrisjbirchall
Jul 26, 2007
If you read that tutorial carefully, it asks you to Ctrl+click the text layer. This makes a selection (marching ants) based upon the transparency. The Select>Modify operation expands the selection by 2 pixels not the text.
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Ms_Innocent
Jul 26, 2007
I understand that. I did read the tutorial, and I DID ctrl+click the text layer. I just tried again to make sure. In the layers window, it shows the text highlighted, which i’m assuming means its selected. The select>modify operation, however is still not becoming available.
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Ed_Hannigan
Jul 27, 2007
No. If the text is highlighted it’s not an active selection. I bet you double-clicked the T maybe, not Ctrl-clicked.

You need "marching ants" type of selection. Another way would be to go to Select>Load Selection.
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chrisjbirchall
Jul 27, 2007
Or Right click the T in the text layer (in the layers palette) and choose "Select Pixels" from the flyout menu.

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