Leopard Love: Advanced Selection in Preview
Over at MurphyMac, Murphy has posted a great tutorial about the new Leopard selection tools for Preview.app. As usual, there's an excellent screencast that walks you through the entire process. The new "Extract Shape" tool lets you draw a rough outline around an object and then use selection handles to fit the outline to the shape. The screen cast then goes on to describe how you can matte around the selection to control the edge texture. It's a tidy and easy-to-follow technique that seems to produce nicely trimmed results.
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Over at MurphyMac, Murphy has posted a great tutorial about the new Leopard selection tools for Preview.app. As usual, there's an...
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So, with all that is said about the "crash". Does anyone know how to stop the application, so as not to lose the other documents you happen to also be working on without losing them? I was in iPhotos editing and then tried to email it and for an hour now the color spiral has been going round and round and round. Again someone please tell how to stop the runaway application.
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Color adjustment (as well as Advanced Selection) in Preview work fine for me on my MacBook Pro, for what it's worth. These are fantastic tips! I'll be using Preview even more often now. Thanks for sharing.
December 19 2007 at 8:49 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhen I adjust the colors on preview it won't ever let me save...it crashes!
December 18 2007 at 8:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI followed along with my test .jpg until the select dropdown menu. Mine doesn't drop down. This is with an original .jpg from my canon digital rebel xti. I tried some other images (.jpg, .gif) and I can never get any options under the select menu. Tried on another 10.5.1 machine too and also didn't work. Ideas?
December 18 2007 at 6:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAlan - did you try holding down the mouse button? This dropdown doesn't seem to respond very quickly to a click.
December 18 2007 at 7:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThanks a bunch! I thought something was messed up on my system as I've seen a similar tutorial before (but for beta versions of 10.5) and I hadn't ever been able to get this to work. I assumed that a simple click would make the dropdown work as in, well, just about everything. You do have to hold it down (and keep holding it down) to make it work. THANKS!
December 18 2007 at 8:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyPreview.app --> tools --> adjust color = crash
December 18 2007 at 5:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replypreview.app --> tools --> adjust color = adjust color palette (!?)
December 18 2007 at 6:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyPreview crashes on me every single time I attempt to save a file after using the Adjust Color pallet! On both my MacBook (with a clean Leopard install) and my Mini (with an upgrade from Tiger.) The only thing Preview does reliably for me is crash. It's almost great to hear someone else say they're having the same problem! I feel left out of the Preview Party because it's unusable for me.
December 18 2007 at 8:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyPreview is steadily shaping up as the next Photoshop killer.
December 18 2007 at 4:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI would gladly choose a combination of Preview and Pixelmator over the 'Shop.
December 18 2007 at 5:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply"I would gladly choose a combination of Preview and Pixelmator over the 'Shop."
Needs more CMYK.
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...but I eated it.
I Can Has Cheezburger, FTW!
December 19 2007 at 9:19 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI Can Has Cheezburger, FTW!
December 19 2007 at 9:19 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThat's one SAD looking kitten...
December 18 2007 at 4:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyMan theses minor details are very important and need to be highlighted rather than the fancy time machine and back to my mac shyte. This update and the one about Power searching in Leopard Mail are seriously making me think about the upgrade.
December 18 2007 at 4:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHot Apps on TUAW
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