Avestron

Thank you kindly for the proposed work-around :c) Yes that is certainly another way to get things done! That also brings us to another option for selections - pixel creep (inwards or outward as per option). Or perhaps a selection manipulation tool that can allow persons to manipulate selection lines either mathematically through automatic processes or manually through elasticated click and drag vector processes. Either way - the above technique should work! Thanks again.

You know how a magic wand allows users to set a tolerance and select accordingly. Well this usually works well for most people's purposes but what if the object concerned has a shadow or highlight effect that would fall through the cracks and require more editing. What I was thinking here is that it would be very useful to be able to not only set tolerances for the tool but also set a 'border' variable in pixels. Hence it would be much easier to extract that text or object with its shadows intact (and requiring less retouching work)