Ofnuts <ofnuts laposte net> writes:
On 08/15/2013 11:15 AM, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer wrote:Say you've zoomed in to start this painstaking freehand selection with lots and lots of points, and when you get to the end, nothing gets selected. Then you notice that, once again, you had done a Select All some time ago (invisible because you zoomed in) and forgotten to Select None before clicking the lasso. What do people do to avoid this? (I know the obvious answer is "remember to check what your selection is all the time", but that's seriously flow-disruptive.)People don't do anything because having a "Select all" or any previously existing selection doesn't prevent a freehand selection (or any other kind of selection), which will replace the existing selection(*). What often happens is that the person forgets s/he turned off the "marching ants", so as soon as the selection is completed, all indication of selection disappears. while the selection is indeed there (display it with the quick mask or with Ctrl-T). (*) or add/substract/intersect with it depending on key combos when starting the tool. Of course if you shift-click (asking for addition) with an existing full selection, you will get the full selection.
Sorry, forgot to mention, I typically have the "add to selection" button on. It's a lot more pleasant to use when doing large freehand selections than having to hold the shift button, and avoids that other dangerous situation where your shift-clicking finger starts fatiguing and you let go for a click and the dots start looking weird and you hit return to just add what you've got and the old selection is all gone. -- Kevin Brubeck Unhammer GPG: 0x766AC60C
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