Awful problem with Quick Selection tool in Photoshop 2020





I am totally unfamiliar with forums like these, I thought I posted this question a few months ago, but can't find my post or any answers...so I'm attempting again.

 

When I attempt to use the **Quick Selection Tool** in Photoshop 21.2.4 (MacPro 5,1, OS High Sierra, 32GB RAM), the image breaks up in pieces, and a new cropped selection appears! Please refer to the two screen shots. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions or solutions, thanks!

 

If I'm using the forum incorrectly, I would appreciate advice on that too, thanks.
Hmm, that looks strange (and it shouldn't behave like that ;-)). Have you tried resetting your Preferences? (restart Photoshop and directly hold Cmd-Option-Shift)?
I used [an automatic photoshop script](http://arnaumarch.com/en/sprites.html) once and worked well.


The concept is : 


* Each portion is a different image.
* Each portion (and so, each images) must be in the same folder w/o any other images.
* Run the script indicating the folder and some parameters (size, css name, etc...).
* The script does : 


	1. Merge all images into one with the size you indicated.
	2. Generate the CSS file


In your case, if you modify one image, you regenerate the global image and the CSS via the script and... that's it. Maybe you'll need to copy/paste the CSS in yours if you don't want to use the generated one.


Notes :


I tried it with a few files and worked great. Then, I tried like ~600 pictures and then, you'll need a goooood CPU and patience ;) In this case, don't use it. i've seen this as well. it happened to me when i allowed evernote access to selected photos vs all photos. it is a new ios 14 feature. but it keeps asking. in fairness, i have seen this with other apps too though, so not sure if this is an ios 14 bug or the devs aren't 100% sure how to use the new feature.
 


 for me the fix was to go into iphone privacy settings and give evernote access to all photos, then go back in and deny access. but if you try to import photos again and give it selected access this loop will happen again, so if you do it frequently, give evernote access to all photos. that was all you could do with ios 13 and earlier anyway. turns out what solved the problem was setting the cullpadding property using the setcullpadding() property.

per [the docs](https://photonstorm.github.io/phaser3-docs/phaser.tilemaps.tilemaplayer.html):

when a camera culls the tiles in this layer it does so using its view into the world, building up a rectangle inside which the tiles must exist or they will be culled. sometim… After 5 hours of learning I have compiled these:


Mindset



1. **Make sure the placed image ratio is good** to make it more realistic. This can be attained by checking with the other object in the output picture, like trees, or other peoples' height. You are not going to place human with the size much smaller than the other human at the same picture. Similarly, you also must not place a person with the height higher than a tree.
2. **Get the right perspective**. Sometimes, when an object is placed in an odd perspective, image is going to look very bold that it has been photoshopped or copy pasted.
3. **Lighting**. It is important to pay attention to light source, like the sun, and make sure our object is appropriate with output background light source. This can be done by adjusting the lighting of object and adding shadow with referencing other shadow in output image.


Tools (to make edges more realistic)



1. **Layer masking.** If moving people, hair can look awful if just plainly moved. Masking allows us to further tweak our selection.
2. **Refine edge.** *This tool allows you to control many aspect of the edge of your selection* (desired object to move), like Edge Detection (brushing the edges of object and let photoshop do its job, usually around dog fur), Feather (Soften the area of selection), Smooth (reduce pointiness of your selection), Contrast (somewhat opposite of smooth), and Shift Edge (moving feather far or nearer the selection, usually to remove excess background color near the edges). *REFERENCE: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lDr2Nd8Yl4>*
3. **Layer Matting**. Inside we have many sub-tools to work on, like Color Decontamination (spread out soft mask around the edge, usually for hair to catch other hair that accidentally masked or can be used similarly to Shift Edge), Remove Matte (soften edge of sharp graphic or pixalated, raster look). *REFERENCE: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6K_htNQPPA>*
4. **Image Calculation**. By playing with the blending, we can make the background darker; thus, helping us making mask. *REFERENCE: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zf-H9RoCNk>* okay, from an iphone i see the problem. make sure you don’t have anything on too high of a pixel measurement regarding width as well as make sure none of what you have on position other than auto is sticking out. hope this helps. :wink::+1: adobe photoshop - known for its versatility and useful tools, adobe photoshop is a photo-editing software geared with set of tools like cloning stamp that removes any unwanted sticker from a photo. i found the solution, if i select another option in the backup configuration settings, it is possible to enable the "split file" option.

thanks again for your help!

zeno in mac os x 10.5 leopard (and previous versions like 10.4 tiger and 10.3 panther) there are several ways to un-install applications.
heres a couple
a. simply drag the application to the trash, (you might need to enter your password) and empty the trash. bam! thats all!

or

you can download a program that completely erases the entire program from your system (because the programs sometimes leave something called preference files, in your system, so when their installed again, you'll have them back the same way it was before)

b. download the application "app delete" (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/31123), download it, install it, and open it. *it will open, and all you have to do is drag any application you want to uninstall to the icon in the dock. (you might have to enter your password), and thats it!

as for keyboard shortcuts, i know, they can get confusing, but its really just down to how much you use them.

here is the direct apple link to their keyboard shortcuts for mac os x

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75459

lets take a shortcut for example.. such as this one 

option-shift-command-delete - which empties the trash without you needing to confirm it (it'll just empty it immediately)

this is the keyboard layout on mac's
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/hardware/developer\_notes/macintosh\_cpus-g4/12inchpowerbookg4/art/040945021715\_06.gif

option - is the 'alt' button on your apple keyboard.
shift - is the 'shift' button on your apple keyboard
command- is the command (is an infinity symbol) / apple logo (apple logo may or may not be there, depending on the keyboard you are using, but its still the same)
delete - delete key lol

press them together, and presto! trash is emptied!

theres the quick guide!

=)

-hope i helped

-ken. only thing i can think of is to maybe reflash the firmware. i can't think of any machine, i just had to deal with that use a larger sparkle knife to scrape it up