Rectangle Selection tool

[Brad_Bosley@adobeforums.com]

If I select an area with the rectangle selection tool and want to make it bigger can I do this with out having to select again? Can I just drag the border I want wider or smaller and have it do that?

[graffiti]

Make your selection then go to Select>Transform selection.

[jonf@adobeforums.com]

For crying out loud. When did that option become available? I've been irritated by this snag for years, and hadn't noticed that menu item. Is that new to PS7 or am I an ignorant doofus?

[Scott_Falkner@adobeforums.com]

That's been around for a while. One caveat, the corners will be rounded.

You could press Q, then Command T, scale your rectangle, press Enter, then press Q to turn off Quickmask.

[jonf@adobeforums.com]

Well, I did jump straight from 4 to 7. I'm just hoping it wasn't in 4 all along and I never knew it.

The Quickmask method is probably better then, for getting a proper rectangle. I've been filling the selection on its own layer, use command-t to scale it, then command-clicking the layer palette to select the area. Then I need to throw away that layer. It sounds like the Quickmask features cuts out a couple of steps.

[Scott_Falkner@adobeforums.com]

Quickmask: One of Photoshop's longest and best kept secrets. I find new benefits for it all the time.

[Doug_Katz@adobeforums.com]

I do not find that transforming a rectangular selection with no feather rounds the corners... even slightly.

[Scott_Falkner@adobeforums.com]

I do not find that transforming a rectangular selection with no feather
rounds the corners... even slightly.




Not transforming, expanding.

[Doug_Katz@adobeforums.com]

I think we've been talkig about transforming here.

graffiti: "Make your selection then go to Select>Transform selection."
jonf: "When did that option become available?"
Scott F: "That's been around for a while. One caveat, the corners will be rounded."

Expanding a rectangular selection does indeed round the corners.

[PShock@adobeforums.com]

No rounded corners here.

[Scott_Falkner@adobeforums.com]

Oops. My bad. I somehow thought that Transform Selection was the same as Modify.