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A Tablet Mainly for Selecting Areas With Photoshop? Tired of the Lasso Tool!
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| I need to purchase a tablet mainly for selecting areas of an image
when I am working with Adobe Photshop CS. I am getting tired of long
hours spent on selecting an area of a digital image for further
processing it and its complement. Would the Intuos 3 6x8 tablet make
the job easier for me? Wouldn't it be much easier to use the pen
instead of the Photoshop lasso tool?
Thank you!
maria
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| Kingdom 2005-06-19, 4:15 am |
| maria <> wrote in news:omaab1dk8v11usfmia05s4efmto92knh1u@4ax.com:
> I need to purchase a tablet mainly for selecting areas of an image
> when I am working with Adobe Photshop CS. I am getting tired of long
> hours spent on selecting an area of a digital image for further
> processing it and its complement. Would the Intuos 3 6x8 tablet make
> the job easier for me? Wouldn't it be much easier to use the pen
> instead of the Photoshop lasso tool?
> Thank you!
>
> maria
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Think you miss the point here, a tblet pen simply replaces the mouse, you
still need to use PS tools so you would still be using the lasso tool to
make selections. Certainly the pen gives better control and is easier to
hold, If your "only" going to use it for making selection you'll only
require a Wacom Graphire.
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| Well, not exactly! I can use the pen to trace the border of the
subject with an appropriate color. The lasso tool will then select the
desired subject much easier. This is what I actually meant.
Thank you!
maria
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 07:32:02 GMT, Kingdom <kingdomof@REMOVEXXXXXXXXXX>
wrote:
>maria <> wrote in news:omaab1dk8v11usfmia05s4efmto92knh1u@4ax.com:
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>Think you miss the point here, a tblet pen simply replaces the mouse, you
>still need to use PS tools so you would still be using the lasso tool to
>make selections. Certainly the pen gives better control and is easier to
>hold, If your "only" going to use it for making selection you'll only
>require a Wacom Graphire.
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| Nicholas,
The problem is that most of the time I don't have high-contrast
backgrounds. Too many times, the borderline color of the subject
mingles with the neighboring colors. It is a pain in the neck to
isolate those places by using the mouse to draw some solid
high-contrast separation line. Then I can use the Photoshop lassos.
I need the tablet to draw those lines by hand, not with the mouse.
This is the main difference here. Using my hand instead of the mouse.
Thank you!
maria
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 19:53:54 +1200, Nicholas Sherlock
<n_sherlock@hotmail.com> wrote:
>maria wrote:
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>Eh? You aren't using the magnetic lasso, are you?
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>Cheers,
>Nicholas Sherlock
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| georgie 2005-06-19, 7:16 pm |
| <maria> wrote in message news:omaab1dk8v11usfmia05s4efmto92knh1u@4ax.com...
>I need to purchase a tablet mainly for selecting areas of an image
> when I am working with Adobe Photshop CS. I am getting tired of long
> hours spent on selecting an area of a digital image for further
> processing it and its complement. Would the Intuos 3 6x8 tablet make
> the job easier for me? Wouldn't it be much easier to use the pen
> instead of the Photoshop lasso tool?
> Thank you!
>
> maria
We use the Wacom Intuos2 4" x 5" and find it a very nice replacement for the
mouse when selecting, drawing, and painting. The Intuos3 6" x 8" would be
even better. I think you would be very happy with it.
g
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| In article <qpeab15bqorhmi1bkvda9j4ebdoqo0qgmq@4ax.com>, maria <>
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> The problem is that most of the time I don't have high-contrast
> backgrounds. Too many times, the borderline color of the subject
> mingles with the neighboring colors.
In that case, you're probably going about making your selection the hard
way. Instead of the lasso tool, use the Paintbrush tool in a QuickMask
or layer mask.
You do know that you can use the lasso tool without holding your finger
down on the mouse button, right? After you start making your selection,
place your finger on the ALT key on your keyboard. Now you can release
the mouse button and make "point to point" selections; if you hold down
the mouse button, the lasso tool returns to its normal mode.
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| Kingdom 2005-06-19, 7:16 pm |
| maria <> wrote in news:omaab1dk8v11usfmia05s4efmto92knh1u@4ax.com:
> I need to purchase a tablet mainly for selecting areas of an image
> when I am working with Adobe Photshop CS. I am getting tired of long
> hours spent on selecting an area of a digital image for further
> processing it and its complement. Would the Intuos 3 6x8 tablet make
> the job easier for me? Wouldn't it be much easier to use the pen
> instead of the Photoshop lasso tool?
> Thank you!
>
> maria
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I'm posting a very good tutorial video on using the extract command for you
that you might find very useful and much less arduous than the lasso tool.
You'll find it at alt.binaries.pictures.utilities, it's by Bert Monroy and
it's in quicktime format .mov
But do also get a Waycom tablet, they make things easier.
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The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
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| Ken Wright 2005-06-19, 7:16 pm |
| > You do know that you can use the lasso tool without holding your finger
> down on the mouse button, right? After you start making your selection,
> place your finger on the ALT key on your keyboard. Now you can release
> the mouse button and make "point to point" selections; if you hold down
> the mouse button, the lasso tool returns to its normal mode.
I don't believe it - You're a star, and thank you so much. The times I've
used that to go round awkward shapes, and then haphazardly tried to drag
along a straight line as well - agghhhhhhhh. Cheers again.
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Regards
Ken.......................
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| Thank you very much for the video, kingdom.
This is an excellent video for transferring selections.
I do use different snapshots to paint over a given subject.
I can see you doing it in the video, in part, for transferring image
parts.
However, I do need the selection process itself because I need
to work inside and outside a given saved selection.
First, I draw over the boundarey of the subject to be selected in
another layer. Then I select the subject with one of the lasso tools
and save the selection. Then I load that saved selection onto
the layer of the main image to be modifed.
I also want to thank you all for your response, interest and help. I
am going to purchase the Wacom Intuos 3 6x8 tablet.
maria
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 19:04:32 GMT, Kingdom <kingdomof@REMOVEXXXXXXXXXX>
wrote:
>maria <> wrote in news:omaab1dk8v11usfmia05s4efmto92knh1u@4ax.com:
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>I'm posting a very good tutorial video on using the extract command for you
>that you might find very useful and much less arduous than the lasso tool.
>You'll find it at alt.binaries.pictures.utilities, it's by Bert Monroy and
>it's in quicktime format .mov
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>But do also get a Waycom tablet, they make things easier.
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| In article <qpeab15bqorhmi1bkvda9j4ebdoqo0qgmq@4ax.com>, <Unknown> says...[color=darkred]
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>Nicholas,
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>The problem is that most of the time I don't have high-contrast
>backgrounds. Too many times, the borderline color of the subject
>mingles with the neighboring colors. It is a pain in the neck to
>isolate those places by using the mouse to draw some solid
>high-contrast separation line. Then I can use the Photoshop lassos.
>I need the tablet to draw those lines by hand, not with the mouse.
>This is the main difference here. Using my hand instead of the mouse.
>Thank you!
>
>maria
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>On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 19:53:54 +1200, Nicholas Sherlock
><n_sherlock@hotmail.com> wrote:
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Maria,
You might have better luck, and an easier workflow, if you use the Pen tool to
create a Path for your Selection first. This is a bit tricky, on first try,
but it doesn't take long to become proficient at it, plus the Path is
infinitely editable. I'll go at it rough, then magnify and add points, or move
them and form the Path to my subject. Save Path (for later, and/or smaller
file size, should you need to delete the Selection later), then, with that
Path active, choose Make Selection and use the Options Palette to, say Anti-
alias, or Feather, the Selection. A mouse works fine here, though I always use
my tablet. Do give this method a try.
Hunt
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