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Selection tools are inaccurate.


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Alistair

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My selection and lasso tools all of a sudden arent makeing smooth straight diagnol lines and other lines, but making jagged lines... even my circular tool. Can someone tell me whats going on?
 
theKeeper said:
Turn on the "Anti-Aliasing" for the tools. ;)
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Im not that of a photoshop newbie mark, this is my 3rd yr. with ps ;) The anti-aliasing is on for all the tools (lasso and seceltion and marquee and the fill tool) and its having that problem. So everything is antialiased in the first place, and the stuff is still... really pixelated and screwed up along the edges. You can see what i'm talking about right? I'm sure you do, but there must be a way to fix this [stuned]
 
Did you try to delete your preference file by holding Ctrl+Shift+Alt when you start Photoshop (make sure that you make a copy of your preference file first if you want to keep it)? :\
 
Heh. Classic example.
Alistair, always give as much pertinent information as possible.

Don't some of those tools have the option to feather? Might be a problem with that.
 
That is a wierd fluke. Ive never heard of a feature that would create jaggedy noisy edges along your selections. Are you filling the selections via the edit-->fill command or brushing them in, or....? The only way I could think of duplicating this is if "noise" is checked for your brush settings. Even then, I think you would have to feather the selection to get that effect on the outside. Otherwise, i dont know. An uninstall and reinstall might be in order. Good luck in fixing this, i'd be very annoyed at this problem had it happened to me.

[honesty]
 
Alistair

FYI

If a corrupted PS preferences file turns out to be the culprit...

After you have followed Gaussians steps above and have restarted PS. Set up the PS preferences again that you use and then you can set the PS preferences file to "Read Only" in the properties menu for that file. Then the file will not be over written and the sudden strange malfunctions go away.

But keep in mind that if you need to change any of your preferences again you will first need to uncheck the "Read Only" status.

I have personally done this on my own PS and am very happy with the result.

The above tip is for Windows PC users maybe a little different for a MAC machine.

anepu
 
its no prob with feathering, they're all set to 0. And i filled the selection using the fill tool, and its not the fill tools problem either ;) Gaus, i tryed doing that, it abviously didnt work because my prefs seem the same :| :\ But this is REALLY starting to piss me off. I'm working on some projects that really need these tools to work right :|
 
There's also another possibility; graphics card, since I noticed that these are strange looking jaggies.

It's not uncommon that things break during the summer (hot temperatures).

I have a problem with my graphics card too. I run it with 90% of it's max. speed. If I go faster then I see little red dots in Photoshop.

Other possibility. Did you change something on your system? New software? Did you tweak you graphics card to run with a higher speed (over-clocking)? Did you do it with your processor? Open some other graphics programs; do you experience weird problems with these too.
Did you change your settings in your BIOS (especially those that are AGP related). How is the rest of your system running?

I'm just brainstorming here. Important is that you try to localize the problem and that you make sure that this is only a Photoshop related problem, otherwise it might be like looking for a needle in haystack...
 
I did some more brainstorming.

If this all about filling selections and the anti-alias options for both the selections and fill tool are on, then I can only think about one other single cause; that you use only a handfull of colours...

Did you by accident select a different mode than RGB, like 'Indexed Color' for example?

Please check it for me Alistair, even if you didn't change anything manually.
 
Its on rbg colour, should it be on 8/bit? I think i want it on 16/bit but for some reaon it's on 8 bit [confused] I didnt change anything at all lately. No new software, no new hardware since my new hd, which was.... long time ago. Nothing new, at all. I didnt set my card to a higher speed. It just all of a sudden started happening out of nowhere. one sec...
 
ahahaha Alistair i was only "reminding" you to check that option. Wasn't implying you're a n00b. ;)

So did you say you're in RGB mode then? 8bit is normal, don't change that.

The only other time i've seen this happen is when you're in Bitmap Mode. Make sure you're not. Open a new doc, select RGB from the menu and use the Lasso tool to create a simple selection. Then fill it with black and Deselect.

That's about all i can think of at the moment. :B
 
its not in bitmap mode. This is really aggravating me now, and I really dont want to uninstall. I mean, if it comes that far I will.... but I realy dont want to mess with it. :(
 
hmm.. ok well then if you're NOT in Bitmap mode, then there's no reason i can think of why you have aliasing problems.

Are you sure that your document is set too 100% zoom? And that's it's not sitting at like 66%? Cause that would do this too.

But other than that... i fear an unInstall is pending buddy. }P
Don't forget to move your custom stuff somewhere else while you UN and INstall. :righton:
 
[confused] [confused] [confused] Looks to me like your layer blend mode is set to "dissolve"...
 
err. ok im heading towards doing a uninstall if i cant figure this in this next wk. Um, it is on a 100% mark in that pic.... and no wendy, its not set to dissolve :| I think i would notice that...well. Maybe not, lol, but its not set to dissolve :D ;)
 
Alistair ... just a thought ... in a past post you said you were updating PS7 regulary (at the time it was suggested you turn off the update feature) ... I know you said you hadn't added or changed anything but if it's still on auto update .... just thought I'd mention it as your prob is confounding everyone :(
 
Alistair: and no wendy, its not set to dissolve :| I think i would notice that...
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All kidding aside, Alistair, I've been there... wondering why I've got all these "jaggies" happening and then have noted that for some bizarre reason, my blend layer has defaulted to dissolve. [doh] Believe me, it's driven me crazy more than a couple of times. Sooooo.... when I saw your image, that's *exactly* what it reminded me of.

[confused] Yours is a very confounding problem and it would seem that you will, indeed, have to do an uninstall and re-install as all other avenues seem to have been exhausted.... :(
 
Actually, come to think of it, Wendy's suggestion has merit. That's the first thing i thought of when i saw those images. They don't look like "normal" jaggies at all. They look like "Dissolve" jaggies.

Alistair...
Create a new fresh document... make some selections and fill them just like you did before. Then attach that PSD file to a post and let us open it on our systems.

This will solve the mystery once and for all. :B
 
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