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In the demo below, in the Contextual Task Bar I click Select Subject. After the selection is created, the Contextual Task Bar changes to show selection tasks. After hovering the pointer over the icons to find out what the tool tips say they are, I click the first icon (Modify Selection), and the Modify Selection menu drops down with the commands you were asking about.
If you don’t see the Contextual Task Bar, it might be hidden; to show it, choose the command Window > Contextual Task Bar.
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Hi @larry45 those options are in the Select menu under Modify once you have made an activate selection.
@larry45 Contextual Task bar is at the bottom of the Window menu which has various options. The original list you mentioned is mostly found in the Select Menu. The Contextual Task bar does not include anything in that list besides Generative Fill.
In the demo below, in the Contextual Task Bar I click Select Subject. After the selection is created, the Contextual Task Bar changes to show selection tasks. After hovering the pointer over the icons to find out what the tool tips say they are, I click the first icon (Modify Selection), and the Modify Selection menu drops down with the commands you were asking about.
If you don’t see the Contextual Task Bar, it might be hidden; to show it, choose the command Window > Contextual Task Bar.
Conrad, thanks for the best answer on this. I still totally lost on what do to get all that up? The video has no sound or a bar to know when it begins, so no context..
By @larry45
GIF animations can’t have sound so I make those to not need sound, all the visual cues should be in there. It’s the same with the silent GIF animations that companies like Adobe post in their online help files. I do understand that it isn’t easy to see where the beginning and end are. It’s because I didn’t edit it with any start/end frames or fades, I just recorded and posted it to spend as little time as possible on the answer. But what I try to do is leave extra seconds at the beginning and end to make them more obvious. In this one, the beginning is when you see the document with no selection yet, and the end is after I close the menu on the Contextual Task Bar.
These are the steps used in the demo. Actually, they’re exactly the same steps you were asking about in your first post, I did the demo around exactly what you asked:
1. You see an open document with the Contextual Task Bar, the Layers panel, and the Properties panel.
Your first post asked:
…change a background.. go to the select subject in toolbar.. (exist in toolbar?) , but I did get as far as select subject with the wand...He says then... modify selection , expand, generate fill. etc, I could not see-fine any of those.
By @larry45
OK. So in the demo…
2. The Contextual Task Bar is shown, with the Select Subject and Generative Fill buttons that you said Scott mentioned. I click Select Subject, and the subject is selected. Because a selection is now active, notice that the features on the Contextual Task Bar have changed (because the context has changed with the creation of the selection).
3. Now let’s look for those other features like Modify Selection. I haven’t seen Scott’s book but if he meant to find those on the Contextual Task Bar, then what the demo shows next is hovering over the icons on the Contextual Task Bar to figure out which one to click. The yellow pop-up tool tip for the first icon says…Modify Selection, just like Scott said, so there it is!
4. After a detour to reveal the menu hanging off the last icon (to show that some of those icons have menus), I click the first icon because the tool tip told us that one is Modify Selection. That menu drops open, and now you see the other things Scott mentioned like Expand Selection.
At this point, the demo has shown you everything that Scott said would be there.
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