Diagonal Rectangular Marquee?

[westernmalarkey]

Hello all,

I am wondering if there is a way to create a diagonal rectangular marquee. When I have tried to rotate the marquee diagonally it rotates the entire image with it, which is not what I want. Any advice would be appreciated. I have done some searching on the forum, but haven't really found anything. If this has been covered before feel free to send a link!


Thank you.

 

[MrToM]

If you want to rotate the selection (Marching ants) use:

Select > Transform Selection

You can do move, scale, rotate and, when holding Ctrl + Alt, skew as well.

Regards.
MrTom.

 

[dv8_fx]

Hi.



Use the Polygon Tool set to path with 3 sides to first create the triangular path (use the settings you see in image) . Press Shift and drag the tool pointer upwards to create a uniform, upright shape. Press CTRL and drag the shape to move it.

Press shift and click the work path layer in path palette and it reverts to the ants.

In addition to what MrTom mentioned, it's sometimes important that this as well as when using the regular selection tools that it be used on a new, empty layer as it's the normal tendency for the selection marquee to include whatever pixel or image is within the selection area when you rotate it.

Hope this helps.

 

[dv8_fx]

It's still eating me out....... :banghead:

In truth.... I don't know what the OP meant when he said "DIAGONAL RECTANGLE".

This is a diagonal rectangle -

A-C and B-D are the diagonals.

Basically a rectangle. You can use the basic Rectangle marquee tool or shape tool to do this.

Why I chose a triangle? In case the OP had some other shape in mind. Works almost the same with other shape tools, anyway... and one can select number of sides in settings.

 

[MrToM]

...When I have tried to rotate the marquee diagonally it rotates the entire image with it, which is not what I want...

I based my suggestion on this.....its about as close to 'diagonal' as I could muster.

The polygonal lasso tool would be my next move....snapping to guides if needs be.

Regards.
MrTom.

 

[dv8_fx]

I must be overly thinking too much ..... no work activity for me today.....

Unless he meant a shape appearance like in the old Adobe Pagemaker shape or text box..... an X-box shape.....

 

[Tom Mann]

FWIW, I interpreted it the same way as Mr.Tom, ie, a normal rectangular or elliptical marquee selection, except rotated at some significant angle like 30 or 45 degrees, ie,



OTOH, perhaps he meant this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Los_angeles_orpheum_marquee.JPG

LOL,

Tom M

 

[dv8_fx]

LOL.... I was taking it too literally, I guess...... (no palm to face smiley.....)

 

[MrToM]

I guess it just boils down to this in the end...



Regards.
MrTom.

 

[Tom Mann]

dv8_fx - Hey, "Literal" is my middle name, at least according to my wife!
MrTom - That's a great cartoon. I last saw it years (decades?) ago. It's good to see it again, and still rings true!

Tom M

 

[MrToM]

Yeah it's an oldie but goodie!

Puts a smile on my face on a cold November UK Monday morning.



Regards.
MrTom.

 

[dv8_fx]

hmmmm... maybe it was too much helium the docs gave me when I was born.....