Elliptical Tool drag from centre

[simonbrattphotography]

Hi

How come i cant drag an elliptical marquee from the centre (using Alt Option) . It says you can all over the internet. arrhhh

Thanks

[S_Gans]

Please check your keyboard. This setting does work. Are you holding down any other keys at the same time? Are you holding down Alt/Option until after you let go of the mouse (you should)?

[simonbrattphotography]

Thanks for the quick reply.

No other keys. Ive tried it a hundred times, on two different keyboards, and on the keyboard on the macbook pro.

Doesnt matter when i press Alt/option before or after or either alt option key, it never goes from the centre

[simonbrattphotography]

im using Photoshop CC 22.1.1

[simonbrattphotography]

Which version of Photoshop did you confirm its working?

[simonbrattphotography]

Which version of Photoshop did you confirm its working?

[Norman Sanders]

If, after making the Selectiion are you choosing Select > Transform Selection?

Do you then hold down the Option key and drag one of the handles so that as you change the size and/or shape of the seletion it maintains an unmoving center mark? 

[simonbrattphotography]

I can do that as you say. But i cant make the initial selection with the elliptical marquee from the centre, it always starts from outside the circle or ellipse. 

[jane-e]

Some things to check:

• What do you hold down first: the Option key or the mouse?
• Which do you release first: the Option key or the mouse?
• Is anything else already selected? If it is, the Option key will remove from that Selection. Go to Select > Deselect (Cmd+D) to confirm.

~ Jane

[simonbrattphotography]

Opened new image, nothing selected

Select Ellipitcal marquee, 

Either hold option key first OR hold mouse key first, drag out and its NEVER from the centre.

[simonbrattphotography]

if i hold the mouse key first, then press option key, what is does is doube the size of the shape ie, 100px by 100px, goes to 200px by 200px and from the same origin ie outside the shape

[Mohammad.Harb]

Check the option bar setting, set selectio style to NORMAL, it could be set to fixed ratio .

if that doesn't work, reset the tool preset or photoshop preferences settings 

[simonbrattphotography]

Interesting. It was on normal, of i change it to fixed ratio, same problem, BUT if i change it to fixed size, then pressing alt option key makes the cross hairs go to the centre.

[simonbrattphotography]

resetting tool preset (not that there were any) didnt help

[Jeff Arola]

When you draw from center using the Alt/Option key the cursor does not stay in the center but rather acts the same as if not using the Alt/Option key. Center is where the cursor first was when clicking and drawing out the Elliptical Marquee using Alt/Option.

[simonbrattphotography]

you know where the cursor is when you dont press alt/option? well thats where the cursor is when i PRESS alt/option. All Alt/option does is make the marquee double the size. Hopefully these two screen shots make it clear, the smaller one is without alt/ option, the bigger one is WITH alt/option pressed

[simonbrattphotography]

ahhh i see what you mean, i assumed the cursor would start at the centre, thats what it seems to do in other peoples videos.

[Jeff Arola]

Like this (after pressing Alt i pressed Shift to keep the circle proportional)

I do see one issue and that's the Feather is set to 50 px and Anti alias is unchecked.

See if setting the Feather to 0 px (Zero) and checking Anti alias makes any difference.

[simonbrattphotography]

Thanks, totally my bad. thanks for helping, and being patient.