Can Photoshop do this?
I use Photoshop all the time. I love it more than any other image editing/design tool I’m aware of. But something that I’ve always wanted to do, is to specify the block size of a (squared) selection. Often I have a header image or something, and I want a portion of it, say “100px x 75px”, and I always zoom in closely and carefully select the block I want. Sometimes, when I design something, it goes down to the pixel. If my selection is slightly off, a person with a sharp eye would pick up on it. Plus, like any careful designer, I could never live with the fact that it was a pixel off. It would be much more convenient to just specify a squared selection size, then drag the square around the portion that I want, and copy merged. As many things as Photoshop can do, I would be shocked if you coudln’t specify the size of a squared selection. Do you have any thoughts/answers to this? Or is there an alternative solution in another program?
Mohamed Lamari Thursday, 14 Sep, 2006 Posted at 03:37PM
The solution to this problem is very simple and make me think you do not try to solve before write about :-)
When using Marquee tool to select, you just use top toolbar, and press to change from Normal Style to Fixed Size Style.
Sorry for poor grammar, but English is not my first language :-)