Marquee Tool - Is there a legacy setting?

[Sam_H3000]

Hi everyone. Just another "update" causing me issues...

The marquee tool now seems to shift to only having options in the "style" box for "generate image" or "import image".

I just want to use the good old marguee tool on normal / ratio etc. but seems to keep switching to this new version where width / height are greyed out.

Any thoughts? Can't find a legacy button like some of the other new features that overcomplicate everything.

Thanks in advance

Sam H

Photoshop 26.2  macOS Sonoma 14.1

[Peter Villevoye]

Are you confusing the new Contextual Bar (often floating around, in an almost stalking manner) with the older and still very useful Options bar (nomally positioned at the top) ? Don't worry, that old one is still around. You can find it almost at the bottom of the Windows menu, or simply switch to (or Reset) the Essentials workspace.

If it's something else, then could you make screenshot of what you're seeing ?

[Sam_H3000]

Sure, here is a grab. The option to set marquee as normal / ratio etc. has been replaced with generate image / import image.

I turned the floating bar off. Thanks 🙂

 

[Peter Villevoye]

That's odd ! And I can't think of a use case in which this would logically be a viable option...

This is definitely a bug in the software or a glitch in your installation.

And if you'd select one of these options (juts for the sake of testing), what happens next ?

[Ged_Traynor]

@Sam_H3000 have you tried manually resetting your Photoshop preferences
https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/photoshop/using/preferences.html#Manually
Remember to back up your settings before doing the preference reset
https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/photoshop/using/preset-migration.html

[Sam_H3000]

Thank you guys, much appreciated. I am mid-job, so will make some time to test both at the weekend 😊

[Hagan0D4C]

I've got the same issue.

[Peter Villevoye]

Hey Hagan, that makes a serious bug more plausible...

But do try resetting the preferences first, as Ged described in his earlier reply. 

[LAMY2017]

Just to show what the Style choices are supposed (?) to be:

Resetting Preferences may be overkill. Try Reset Tool, then Reset All Tools (still overkill), then Reset preferences.

 

To answer an initial question, "legacy" is mentioned several times in Settings>Search and Ps>Help, but I did not find legacy Marquee.

[famebot]

Thank you kindly @LAMY2017 this worked for me to fix the issue I had, same as @Sam_H3000 and @Hagan0D4C. For me it was a two step process, first Reset Tool, then quit and repoen Photoshop 2025 (26.3.0 Release). The Style choice did not return to Normal until I quit the app.

[Conrad_C]

Sam_H3000, I noticed in your screen shot that the Enable Narrow Options Bar setting (in Preferences / Workspace)  is on, because the anti-aliasing options in the options bar are shown as icons, not words. Does it work any better if Enable Narrow Options Bar is disabled?

I am not saying that will fix it, because when I turn on Enable Narrow Options Bar on my Mac, the Style menu has the normal, expected options in it. I’m just wondering if it makes any difference.