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How to remove - Warning: No pixels are more than 50% selected. The selection edges will not be visible.

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July 12, 2017
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Is there a way to completely remove this? Even if you make a selection with a large feather radius it is still feathering it regardless, that selection is just invisible. The people here that are answering it are treating it as an error and the only symptom is to not use a large amount of feather strength and try again. The message is really annoying, as I use frequently I might add. So I was wondering if somebody out there could make a script or help me find one, because google itself is littered with this question, but the "resolved answer" doesn't really do anything or relate to what I am asking.

Any ideas?

I've been dealing with it for years, sure I can deal with it some more, but I just thought it would be fixed down the road, as it is a rather strange bug to leave lying around.

Correct answer Sam Gannaway - Ps

You should see this fixed in the current 27.1 Beta for both Actions and scripts. I made the change to have that dialog respect dialog options.

I'll be looking for more dialogs that interrupt. Let me know what to add to the list.

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Sam Gannaway - Ps

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You should see this fixed in the current 27.1 Beta for both Actions and scripts. I made the change to have that dialog respect dialog options.

I'll be looking for more dialogs that interrupt. Let me know what to add to the list.

Stargazer on ARM

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YES! Fantastsic! Absolutely brilliant!

Thank you Sam, thank you so very much, and keep up the good work!

And thanks everyone else for your support in putting this forward, so far it seems to work like a charm!

Sincerely yours, best regards and all that,

Stargazer

Stargazer on ARM

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I most certainly agree!

This should be optional or (even better) not locking the tool/PS app and automatically closing on the next command or mouse click/keyboard input.

Someone suggested starting a new thread presenting this thing as an idea/suggestion for improvement, but I can't find it. Could someone link me, please? Provided of course there is one...

Sincerely yours with best wishes and all that, 

Stargazer

D Fosse

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@Stargazer on ARM

This thread seems to go all over the place and I don't know what actual problem you're referring to.

But assuming it refers to the thread headline, then the answer is very simple: this isn't actually a "warning", it's just information. It tells you that you do have an active selection, but nowhere does it reach the 50% selected threshold where the marching ants would go.

A selection isn't either/or. It can be any degree in between. An area can be 49% selected, so you won't see any marching ants, but it's still an active selection. That's very useful to know.

Stargazer on ARM

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"This thread seems to go all over the place and I don't know what actual problem you're referring to."

It sure does, sorry about that 🙂 And yes you are quite right; I was refering to the original post.

I'm starting to think Adobe PS isn't really intended to be used for this kind of work, so if there is a better way or app that doesn't cut me off from my editing every other second to tell me something I allready know I'll be happy to here about it. I have absolutley no need for that information, nor do most of the people I work with, but some pepople obviously do for some reason.

It's not so much the message, It's just the very tiresome and time consuming nusiance of being cut off from editing by a prompted confirmation lockdown every single time the message pops up, and egods does it pop up every other second or click!

Here is my simple reasoning:

I'm using PS primarily to prepare artwork, drawings, old photographs for high resolution animations in AE, Premeier or Animate, typically 4K-12K wall2wall-projections to "paint" the walls and ceilings of an entire room to create a kind of immersive but historically correct environment. Fiddling around on a deep zoomed in pixel level (and we do that a lot!) triggers off the warning every other time, and it really breaks the flow in a most annoying kind of way (zero feathering is not an option, we really need our feathering).

Again; this is nothing less than extremely annoying and very time consuming. Especially when trying to add or subtract a few extra pixels to fine tune a selection already made with object or quick selection. There is no way of knowing forehand exactly how many pixels PS needs to consider it enough for a selection/deselection, so it’s basically trial and error until just the right amount is captured. Now and then PS drops the pre-selected area for no reason, command-zedding or stepping back in history usually but not always gets it back, and so on and so on and so on…

Not everyone is using Photoshop this way, but then again a lot of people do. By the way, I have been using Photoshop for some 30 years now and most of the apps in the CC suite for about 10. I wouldn’t present myself as a legend, an expert or an advanced user even or anything like that, but I do know my way around the CC block.

Sincerely yours with best wishes and all that, 

Stargazer

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RoyceJennings

Participating Frequently

So I did find a workaround of sorts... if you set the feather to 0px AND turn off Anti-alias, the warning doesn't come up. Granted, you may be wanting one of those on, but this is all I found to work.

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Benjamin24961731y5t4

Participating Frequently

"It is not a bug it a message"

This is true. However the infinate wisdom of Adobe: should they realise that sometimes, people are working as professionals and need to create actions that dont stop for silly random reasons such as this!

Therefore setting a feather to 0 is not the solution - as sometimes, professional editors need to create actions that ACTUALLY NEED TO FEATHER SELECTIONS.

A simple "do not show this again" in the pop up box OR a checkbox in preferences that says: Selection Warnings - Overide Selection Warnings, or to the like.

I am not holding my breath.

One only needs to look at how the EXPERT Adobe programmers destroyed bridge in one single update.

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

Benjamin, start a new thread and mark it as an idea. Try and make it clear what it is about in the Subject line, and I suspect it will get a lot of likes. I will certainly vote it up.

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Martingardner

Participant

I think Adobe should re-instate the check box to remove this dialog, in my case I run 16 bit images through a complex action that does a lot of work and multiple adjustments to different layers, each image takes about 5 minutes to go through the process and I work on another computer or go out to dinner etc. while the action is applied to 150 images.. kind of annoying for the action to stall on image 3 with this daft dialog and I come back to the computer after 4 hours and the process stack has got nowhere.

There's always someone that says "I am not affected by this", I am severely affected by this and as a professional software solution, we should get a professional response when we ask to have it removed.

JJMack

Community Expert

Perhaps if you convert the Action to a script using Xtools the the action in its script form will not stop and wait for you to dismiss that popup. I believe the script would only stop on errors not warnings.

Phehaps Batching your Action with the Image Processor script instead of File>Automate>Batch may also not stop because the action is being used by the script not from Photoshop UI or Automate Batch. Should be worth a try anyway. You just need to process one image the get the warning. Make sure you action doe selec some pixels. If the next step requires a selection it will fail if no selection was made.

JJMack

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Dmox Power

Participating Frequently

I seem to remember there was a option to hide this warning a few versions back. I also find it very annoying. When I am using the lasso tool to cut masks I often accidentally click and select nothing - I understand the need for people unfamiliar with p'shop to need the warning but I don't.

Terri Stevens

Legend

Don't you think your are over reacting a tad Mark? "I hate you, Adobe. HATE you." is rather pathetic to be honest over something so trivial. I've used Photoshop for 20 years and never had a crash with any of the selection tools and as an ACP here can't recall an OP having a problem making selections that couldn't be traced back to a hardware or driver issue.

As JJ said the 'No pixels are more than 50% selected' message is there by design and is not a bug. The marching ants display is never, ever a true representation of exactly what is selected, it is just a guide. The message you are seeing is just telling you that you have a selection made even though it cannot be rendered to the screen and certainly to advanced users we need to know that.

Terri

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Mark Oakley

Participating Frequently

I agree with you (about 80%) and removed my comment as a result, about ten minutes after posting.

It was a moment of Adobe-inspired frustration as Photoshop froze up for the third time in the last hour on a graphics job. -Just as it has done, and continues to do so, on every laptop I've owned over the last half decade, including, Toshiba, Samsung and Dell. At some point, Adobe is to blame, not me or the hardware provider.

(That's the 20%, btw, of my complaint which I consider valid.)

D Fosse

Community Expert

Photoshop on a laptop is very often not a good match, for one particular reason: video adapters. Today many laptops have dual graphics, which Photoshop has big problems with. Users are officially warned against that, and advised to disable one of them.

Even with single graphics, laptops use manufacturer-modified video drivers, with additional "helpful" functions that cause Photoshop to choke. One famous thread recently dealt with auto-dimming of the UI.

On a desktop system, you don't have these problems. I haven't seen a crash, freeze or hang in years. And I use Photoshop professionally, eight hours a day, five days a week. And then I use it when I get home. Not a hitch, never.

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Frethead

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Try changing "Feather" to 0px

mizkab9243493

Participant

It works! setting the feather to 0.

Thanks for tip:)

JJMack

Community Expert

It is not a bug it a message. Informing you will not see where you just selected some pixels. Users expect to see marching ants near where pixels are selected. You should not see this message in an automated process like a script or action However, a Script or action may also fail if no pixels are selected at all. For the next thing that script or actions is going to do is use the selection it just made and that will fail for there is no selection. The message is displayed in Photoshop UI not in Automation. Photoshop has many selection tools if you use the in Photoshop UI you may get that message. You only see Error message from Action and Scripts not informative messages. Script can even turn off recording history states.

You would need to make all selection from Action and scripts not use Photoshop selection tools in Photoshop UI.

JJMack

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