How do I delete a selection instead of the entire layer?

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needin4mation
Sep 2, 2007
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Hi, I’m trying to do this tutorial to make a sphere:

http://www.phong.com/tutorials/sphere/

On step two it says to hit delete after I contract and feather, but when I hit delete the entire layer deletes instead of just my selection. How can I delete just the selection?

Thank you for any help.
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ronviers
Sep 2, 2007
On Sep 1, 10:57 pm, jmDesktop wrote:
Hi, I’m trying to do this tutorial to make a sphere:

http://www.phong.com/tutorials/sphere/

On step two it says to hit delete after I contract and feather, but when I hit delete the entire layer deletes instead of just my selection. How can I delete just the selection?

Thank you for any help.

Hi jmDesktop,
I tried but I cannot reproduce your problem. The tutorial seems to work fine as written. Maybe you could try using the menu Edit>Clear command instead of the Del key just for testing.

Good luck,
Ron
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needin4mation
Sep 4, 2007
On Sep 2, 3:29 am, "" wrote:
On Sep 1, 10:57 pm, jmDesktop wrote:

Hi, I’m trying to do this tutorial to make a sphere:

http://www.phong.com/tutorials/sphere/

On step two it says to hit delete after I contract and feather, but when I hit delete the entire layer deletes instead of just my selection. How can I delete just the selection?

Thank you for any help.

Hi jmDesktop,
I tried but I cannot reproduce your problem. The tutorial seems to work fine as written. Maybe you could try using the menu Edit>Clear command instead of the Del key just for testing.

Good luck,
Ron

It was me. I used a shape instead of the marquee tool. Sorry for the post.

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