Marching ants not showing when using single row and single column marquee tool

[Tommy5C1F]

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!

[jane-e]

Hi

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

~ Jane

[Barbara Ash]

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

[Tommy5C1F]

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!

[jane-e · Accepted solution]

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

[Tommy5C1F]

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]

You're welcome, Tommy, I'm glad it's working for you now. 😊

~ Jane