What a drag...

[gcaluna13]

My CS2:

I could zoom in on the lower left corner of an 8x10, drag a selection box (terrible with terminology - it's the rectangular lasso thingy) all the way over to the lower right in 1 second or less.

My new version CS3: I go through the same zoom down to the pixels and select that tool and start to drag it over to the right. tick, tock, tick, tock... still waiting.

Any quick fix?

 

[kaht]

Any quick fix?

get a better computer?

-kaht

Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way. - Homer Simpson

 

[gcaluna13]

Funny....

Nope. Computer is fine.

 

[apepp]

...use the navigator palette...

Andrew

 

[gcaluna13]

Yes, but why the disparity?

Between cs2 and cs3?

Any Lasso type tool I used before in Zoom mode was speedy, not the case now. Wonder why?

Cheers,
G.

 

[gcaluna13]

PS. How do you use the navigator palette if you are already in the middle of a Polygonal Lasso Tool maneuver?
I'm zoomed in close to a shape that I want to recreate to make it less jagged, and I try to move ahead (which is VERRRRYYYYY SLOO

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-my first question) and now I can't put my lasso "on hold" to select anything else. It just locks me into my page with the lasso following my mouse moves. Help!!!

My second question: Is there a good tool or way to recreate an amage to make it less jagged? Example: I have an image of a coffee cup that came from a standard 72 resolution file. I drag it over to my 300 resolution file and enlarge it,very pixelated. Now I'm trying to zoom in tight to get this cup extreme and, well, first of all it's dog tired slow, moving around the cup (like I said, not the case with my earlier version of PS) and now as Andrew suggests, use the navigator, but I can't. I'm lassoed!

Am I doing the fine tuning of an image correctly in Photoshop as stated, or is there an easier way that will make it as tight as I can get it when I zoom in and trace the contours as I usually do?

Also, What do do about the slow moving lasso in zoom mode?