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Tommy5C1F
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August 23, 2020
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Marching ants not showing when using single row and single column marquee tool

  • August 23, 2020
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Hi all,

 

(Photoshop 2018 Windows)

 

Does anyone has this issue/know how to solve this issue? This issue happens all of a sudden. When I choose single row/single column marquee tool and click on a background layer/layer above the background layer, the marching ants are not showing. The feather is already set to 0px.

 

If I choose intersect with selection and click on the background layer/layer above the background layer, it just says no pixels are selected.

 

This issue didn't happen before.

 

Thanks a lot!

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Correct answer jane-e

Hi

I just played with this and had the same issue at a 16.67% zoom level more than half the time. When I zoomed in, however, I saw that the selection was there. Try zooming in to see if that helps you to see it.

 

I also tried filling the single pixel selection while zoomed to 16.67% and that worked. I had to zoom in to see it, though.

 

Your first image is zoomed to 50%.

 

Does this help?

 

~ Jane

 

 

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barbara_a7746676
Community Expert
barbara_a7746676Community Expert
Community Expert
August 24, 2020

If you right click on the tool icon in the upper left corner and choose Reset Tool, does that fix the problem?

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Tommy5C1FAuthor
Participant
August 24, 2020

Hi,

 

The reset tool does not work and it happened since yesterday. I just found out it only happened on certain jpg/jpeg photos. For example, you can see the marching ants on the city photo using new selection/intersect with selection, but the balloon store photo fails to show. This issue happens to many photos and I don't know why.

 

Lasso and quick selection tools are not affected. Only single row and single column marquee tools are bugged by this issue.

 

Thank you!

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Tommy5C1FAuthor
Participant
August 24, 2020

Hi

I just played with this and had the same issue at a 16.67% zoom level more than half the time. When I zoomed in, however, I saw that the selection was there. Try zooming in to see if that helps you to see it.

 

I also tried filling the single pixel selection while zoomed to 16.67% and that worked. I had to zoom in to see it, though.

 

Your first image is zoomed to 50%.

 

Does this help?

 

~ Jane

 

 


Hi Jane,

 

Yes, it works!!! I didn't know that could affect the marching ants. Thank you so much for your kind assistance!

 

Also thanks to Barbara for helping!

    jane-e
    Community Expert
    jane-eCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    August 23, 2020

    Hi

    Make the selection and show us a screen shot of your options panel. When did the issue start?

    ~ Jane

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