Photoshop warning message

[barnenobel]

Help! When I use color range on photoshop, the message "Warning: No pixels are more than 50% selected. The selection edges will not be visible." keeps appearing. I've tried many times to get past the warning by following tips and solutions. I've set the feathering to 0 px and some other methods other users have tried. Is there any fix to this? I understand what its saying but im at a lost at this point.

Has anyone gotten past this any other way? I have been working with photoshop for 5 years now and this is the first time it has been this difficult to rid of something like this. Please help!

[Chuck Uebele]

Did you make a selection before using color range, or are you just using color range to make the selection? What is showing up in the dialog box for the preview? Can you post some screen shots of that?

[barnenobel]

I did try both without selection, clicking layer, cntrl + a-ing the layer. Side note I only have just the image set onto the workspace right now. Its just this one image im working with. If I wasn't clear enough in this reply please let me know. 

[D Fosse]

The message means exactly what it says, word for word.

A pixel isn't necessarily either selected or not, it can just as well be partially selected. The marching ants just mark the boundary where pixels are 50% selected.

When you get this message it just means that no pixels are more than 50% selected - so you don't see any marching ants. To find out what you have selected in this case, if anything at all, you need to enter quick mask or some other method.

[barnenobel]

Just to clarify, in the case of what you're telling me, would it be the same case if I do see the marching ants? Or could it be that im selecting something else. I only have just the one layer in question and this still appears. When you say quick mask, could you lend any suggestions on what I should do?

[D Fosse]

There's a preview in the Select Color Range dialog. Use it. It shows you how much is selected.

Note that if you already have a selection active when you invoke Color Range, you only get the subset of the intersection between the two. That may be nothing at all.

Drag the fuzziness slider to the right to increase the picker tolerance, so that larger areas are selected. Use the +eyedropper button to add more samples to the same selection.

It may also be a good idea to set the eyedropper tool itself to sample 3x3 or 5x5, not point sample (single pixel) which I think is the default. You do this up in the options bar with the eyedropper tool selected.

Make sure you're sampling from the correct layer.