So you’ve just made a selection in Photoshop using the Marquee tool, but you didn’t start in the right place and one of the corners isn’t covering part of the area you want selected. Yeah, you could try to place your cursor oh-so-perfectly right near the area in question and try to drag another rectangular marquee selection (using the Shift key of course to add to an existing selection). But why doesn’t Photoshop just give you interactive resize handles for the selection?
Turns out you can do this, but you need to go to the Selection menu (CS1) and choose “Transform Selection”. Bingo. Maybe this is a popintless tip, but I have struggled with this for years in Photoshop, and I feel kind of dumb just finding this now. But it’s useful, and I pass it on to those in the same boat as I used to be.
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That’s a very great tip!
That makes two of us. I’ve struggled with it for years. :)
Glad it helped. It’s weird how something can be right in front of your face the whole time and you never see it.
Sometimes I think I am just catching up on all the new features in Photoshop 6 when I am using CS1.
There are so many things to learn, it seems two new versions are out before you even know what some of the stuff does in the version you own, if you even know it’s there!
Excellent tip, thank you!
Glad to help!
Very useful and saved me a ton of time trying to get a circle selection just the right size. Thanks!
You would think adobe would make it easier than paint shop pro but no, adobe is famous for there apps being amazing as well as difficult, thats why there are over 100 books written for using Photoshop!
Thanks for this page!
Thank you so much!
I have been struggling with this for some time thinking there must be a better way than adding and subtracting bits of a selection.
Kinda feel a bit stupid now.
No reason to feel stupid, I posted this after I figured it out myself. I was doing the same thing you describe until I found this command.
Prior to reading your post I was just like you, wondering why the industrial standard PS doesn’t have such necessary feature. Turns out to be it was “hidden” there, under that Select menu.
Does this meant Adobe thinks its PS users seldom need to resize the selection? Because even on very simple image editor as IrvanView all you have to do is just click and drag on the edges.
Thank you for the enlightenment :)
I agree, it’s odd that the selection transform is not obvious. Wondering if maybe there is a method to their madness?
SIGH… thanks for this… I was just pulling hairs out here to get it right. They should put this in EDIT> transform… really… ALL THUMBS UP!