unable to contract/expand

for some reason i am unable to contract/expand my selection area when i highlight the entire area. I havent had any problem with this before. Does anybody have any idea what may fix this? perhaps i hit a wrong button or something. kthx

are you trying to expand the actual area? Cause the expand/contract function only works on the selection size itself, not the area inside the "marching ants" border.

In fact, you need a workaround to contract the selection when you've just done a select all. You may use select>modify>borders, then invert selection [ctrl+i] and then adjust as needed, or try the workaround on this page: http://user.fundy.net/morris/photoshop9.shtml

It should be fixed in the next version of PS.

Shoot...I meant to post Trevor's workaround the other day, but I forgot that he was the one who came up with it and made that tutorial...plus, I didn't have it bookmarked.

Someone just posted about this in the Adobe Photoshop Feature Request Forum, and I rushed over here with the link pasted into my clipboard.

Good job, Sir sPECtre.

You're welcome, Phoz!

Yes, I see that "someone" posted a link to it over there ;)

Hey, My "title" should not follow me here ;)

The Photoshop Engineers stated that it is a bug... I thought that is was something unprogrammeable for an obscure reason, given the long time that this problem has been affecting photoshop...