Avestron Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 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) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddLlama Posted December 9, 2012 Share Posted December 9, 2012 There is a workaround for now. 1. select with m. wand 2. new layer (don't deselect) 3. paint bucket selected area red 4. deselect 5. outline object plugin (100% strength and whatever outline you need), also use red 6. m. wand at 0% tolerance on the red 7. switch back to old layer I use this technique when I am removing a background and a little bit of the background is outlined on whatever you are isolating. Quote Here is my website - http://www.oddllama.cu.cc Here is my gallery - http://oddalpaca.deviantart.com/gallery Am I odd? - yes Am I a llama? - yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avestron Posted December 9, 2012 Author Share Posted December 9, 2012 (edited) 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. Edited December 9, 2012 by Avestron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted December 9, 2012 Share Posted December 9, 2012 Have you met this tool? = Move Selection It allows you to move, resize and rotate the selection outline Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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