crop variation

kendall1 · Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 2

Hi All,

I have a rectangular pic that I want to remove some non-symmetrical areas from. Actually, what I would like to be able to do is to have the opposite of what the crop tool does. I want to have the area that is normally kept, deleted, and the area normally deleted, kept.

Any suggestions? TIA

Kendall

Phate · Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:47 am Post subject: Re: crop variation

you can select what you dont want selected, then go to select, inverse

kendall1 · Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 2

Thanks Phate,
I tried doing that but the inverse option is grayed out. If I hit [select all] the inverse option gets black. But when I hit inverse I get an error message saying that no pixels have been selected. If I try using the crop tool first to select some pixels, the inverse option is grayed out... Now what do I do?

I'm using version 6.0.

webmaster · Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 10:59 am Post subject: Re: crop variation

Hi and welcome to DEVPPL kendall1.

Im not very familliar with version 6, but I think the problem could be that you are trying to edit a non-psd-image. If you open your image, press CTRL+A, CTRL+N, ENTER, CTRL+V. Then select what you don't want to be selected and choose Select > Inverse (CTRL+SHIFT+I).

Does that work?

Pure_Graphix · 100+ Club Joined: 10 Sep 2004 Posts: 240 Location: US

one problem your having, is that either when you are selecting, always check your feather.. i am also not very familiar with photoshop 6, but sometimes that 'no pixles selected' error is from the feather not being on 0, also, if you are 'selecting all' of the image then trying to select inverse, it wont work,as you said. Because obviously if it is all selected, there can't be anything else to inversely select Smile

. Try not selecting all, and just select what you want to keep, like a crop, then ctrl+shift+I. just some suggestions, let us know how its going.

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