Adding to a Color Range Selection

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jim evans
Dec 27, 2003
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Several times recently after I had completed a Color Range selection and returned to the main image I realized I wanted to add more colors to the selection, but I can’t figure out a way to return to the color range dialog and add to the existing selection. When I select additional areas and exit Color Range the previous selection is lost and only the new selection remains.

Is there a way to add a second Color Range selection to a previous one? Perhaps the more generic question would be, is there a way to add a Color Range selection to an existing selection?

jim
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bhilton665
Dec 27, 2003
From: jim evans

Several times recently after I had completed a Color Range selection and returned to the main image I realized I wanted to add more colors to the selection, but I can’t figure out a way to return to the color range dialog and add to the existing selection. When I select additional areas and exit Color Range the previous selection is lost and only the new selection remains.

Is there a way to add a second Color Range selection to a previous one? Perhaps the more generic question would be, is there a way to add a Color Range selection to an existing selection?

There are probably other ways that are easier, but off the top of my head this one works … save off the first Color Range selection as an alpha channel (Select > Save Selection). Then deselect, then go to Color Range again and make your second selection. With this selection active just click Select > Load Selection and pick the alpha channel with the earlier selection and select the option ‘add to selection’. You can do this any number of times, saving off the intermediate selections as alpha channels and combining them later.

The key point here is that you can save off selections as alpha channels and then reload them later with other selections in various ways (see the Load Selections options).

Bill
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jim evans
Dec 28, 2003
On 27 Dec 2003 17:57:28 GMT, (Bill Hilton)
wrote:

From: jim evans

Several times recently after I had completed a Color Range selection and returned to the main image I realized I wanted to add more colors to the selection, but I can’t figure out a way to return to the color range dialog and add to the existing selection. When I select additional areas and exit Color Range the previous selection is lost and only the new selection remains.

Is there a way to add a second Color Range selection to a previous one? Perhaps the more generic question would be, is there a way to add a Color Range selection to an existing selection?

There are probably other ways that are easier, but off the top of my head this one works … save off the first Color Range selection as an alpha channel (Select > Save Selection). Then deselect, then go to Color Range again and make your second selection. With this selection active just click Select > Load Selection and pick the alpha channel with the earlier selection and select the option ‘add to selection’. You can do this any number of times, saving off the intermediate selections as alpha channels and combining them later.
The key point here is that you can save off selections as alpha channels and then reload them later with other selections in various ways (see the Load Selections options).

Thanks. The alpha channel method worked. I’d considered that, but I suspected there was probably a more direct way to add a Color Range selection to an existing selection, and being the lazy lout I am . . .

jim
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