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Sent: 2010-06-13 23:25:10 UTC (over 1 year ago)

From: Dotan Cohen

Selecting area within area

I am using the Fuzzy Select Tool to select an area which is _roughly_
circular, however no matter how I set the tool I get either too much
or too little selection. This would be a lot easier if I could specify
a small section of the image, then let the tool only work in that
section. Is this possible? Should I simply copy the small section to a
different layer and work there?

Thanks.

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Sent: 2010-06-14 00:00:15 UTC (over 1 year ago)

From: Branko Vukelic

Selecting area within area

The way I usually do it (it depends on the task, though, but in most
cases anyway) is:

1. duplicate the layer
2. do all corrections on the new layer as if I was working on the
portion I'm really interested in
3. mask the new layer to make it fully transparent
4. restore the areas of interest using the brush tool

As I said, this doesn't apply to all situations, but in most cases it
gets the job done, plus I can enable and disable the edited layer at
any time.

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I am using the Fuzzy Select Tool to select an area which is _roughly_
> circular, however no matter how I set the tool I get either too much
> or too little selection. This would be a lot easier if I could specify
> a small section of the image, then let the tool only work in that
> section. Is this possible? Should I simply copy the small section to a
> different layer and work there?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Dotan Cohen
>
> http://gibberish.co.il
> http://what-is-what.com
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Sent: 2010-06-14 00:54:50 UTC (over 1 year ago)

From: Dotan Cohen

Selecting area within area

Thanks Branko and Chris, layers it is then. I just wanted to make sure
that I wasn't missing out on some fantastic technique made just for
this.

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Sent: 2010-06-14 02:08:38 UTC (over 1 year ago)

From: Rob Antonishen

Selecting area within area

Use boolean operations. Make your first selection with (for example)
the rectangle selection. Then in the magic wand select options check
out the four top icons and pick the one with the intersect tooltip. My
computer isn't handy to check, sorry. Also when using the magic wand
select click and hold then move the mouse pointer up and down to
dynamically adjust the threshold setting.

-Rob A>

On 6/13/10, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Thanks Branko and Chris, layers it is then. I just wanted to make sure
> that I wasn't missing out on some fantastic technique made just for
> this.
>
> --
> Dotan Cohen
>
> http://gibberish.co.il
> http://what-is-what.com
>

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