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Selection Marquee Difficult to See

New Here ,
Oct 06, 2023 Oct 06, 2023

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Hello! Is there any way at all to make the selection tool marquee easier to see? When dragging a marquee around darker objects the selection marquee/box is nearly impossible to see. It's even more imossible to see if trying to select a group of objects out on the gray pasteboard. A similar issue exists with ruler guides. They're fine and perfectly visible once placed, but when in the process of dragging them out from the ruler they are very thin and faint. I have to get way up close to the monitor at times to see what I'm doing (the attached image is heavily cropped from a 27" monitor, so imagine sitting 3' back from that in a bright area and trying to see that faint selection marquee). I've read the entire internet and found no joy. Illustrator desperately needs an option to make said faint lines a brighter color, somewhat like the bright red edges that show when using the shape tools (square/circle/star etc.) Thanks for any suggestions within the app or via some sort of plug-in!

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Oct 07, 2023 Oct 07, 2023

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There is no enhancement.

 

This would make a good feature request: https://illustrator.uservoice.com 

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Oct 14, 2023 Oct 14, 2023

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I suspected as much. My old version of Illustrator CS5.5 had much darker and more prominent selection marquees and guides when dragging from the ruler. Too bad "progress" has lead to nearly "useless". Thanks!

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Oct 14, 2023 Oct 14, 2023

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Your old CS5 was not running in HighDPI systems and maybe you have a new computer with a much larger screen as well, so of course the selection marquee was more prominent, the pixels were just blockier. 

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Oct 14, 2023 Oct 14, 2023

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Yup, I realize that's very likely the case, but it'd be nice if Adobe would account for that being a fact of any more modern computer and adapt accordingly. I've submitted a feature request.

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