triangle?

you may not no the answer to this but, why dosent Ps have a triangular marquee tool ?
was woundering, u have circle u have square dose Ps not like the triangle?

Taking that logic even further...where would you stop? Include preconfigured Marquee Tools for parallelograms? Trapezoids? Pentagons, Hexagons, Heptagons, Octagons?....where would you draw the line as to what tools to include and which to leave out? The steps necessary to get from Custom Shapes to Selection Marquee are pretty easy, and serves the user—and the UI—well.

If you're really curious, I'd suggest asking in the Adobe User-to-User Forum. It may catch the attention of one of the Adobe engineers that frequent there. I suspect they'd answer similarly.

Because you can just use the polygonal lasso tool?

yeh i no u can use that but you could get a perfect triangle, as in holding shift wen u want a perfect circle or square, sorry ignore me, lol was just woundering,


and Utopian Pentagons, Hexagons, Heptagons etc arent everday shapes that u think of wen i think of shapes i think of square/circle/triangle straight away then i start thinking of the others, lol

Still, I maintain that getting from Custom Shape---»Selection Marquee is dead simple. I will grant you, however, that being able to drag out a polygon Custom Shape that isn't constrained to equilateral/equiangular would be nice.

I'd rather Adobe engineers spend their resources on features that enhance, rather than clutter Photoshop's capabilities.

make a perfect square selection, rotate it 45 degr so it's a diamond, the subtract a square selection from one side of your diamond selection, and there's your perfect triangle selection. then transform that to whatever size u want.
so why make another tool just to do that?

"Polygon Custom Shape---»Free Transform---»Right Click---» Make Selection..."

Gravy.

A perfect square, rotated 45 degrees, and a side sliced off would give you an 45-45-90, 1-1-sqrt(2) isosceles triangle, not a "perfect" or equilateral triangle.

If you wanted to make an equilateral/equiangular triangle, you're better off using the 15° increments with the Free Transform tool coupled with the line tool (or any tool of your choice).

OK...I give up on this one.

I love it xD