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carlmason2
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June 20, 2017
Question

Using Quick Selection Tool selects whole image

  • June 20, 2017
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I have PSE 15 on a MacBook Pro, late 2016, with OS X 10.12.5. When I start off using the quick selection tool things go OK for awhile, but then the selection jumps to the whole image or most of the image not being restricted to the object I'm trying to isolate.. I've read about using this tool and watched videos, but somehow I don't think I know enough. It looks so simple when they do the illustrations, but it sure doesn't go easily for me. Any suggestions would be welcome. I feel this is far more complicated than presented and would like to know where I can find info when I have problems.

Thanks

Carl

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Chunkseler
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January 28, 2018

Set the style to Normal first. If the style is Fixed Size it will select the entire image and when set to Fixed Ratio it will only allow you to select a rectangle in the ratio you indicated.

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arshla jindal
Adobe Employee
June 20, 2017

Hi Carl,

Thanks for reaching out to us.

I am sure you must have gone through help contents, still suggesting you read this help guide on selections : Make selections in Photoshop Elements

It would help you better understand the tool.

You should work with smaller brush size to overcome the problem you are falling into:

Quick Selection Brush tool

Moreover, you can subtract from selection whenever more than required area comes into selection.

Hope this would be helpful.

Thanks,

Arshla

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