does this make any sence???

Tell me if you have ever heard of this:
My dad has photoshop 5.0 on his computer. Yesterday everything was working fine. He has since
messed around with it a little and I think created a problem. When you:
First you create a layer
(background layer) that is just a color and then open up a picture to select a portion
and copy/paste it onto the background layer, the rectangular marquee is selected, and I know what
it looks like, I also know that if you hold down the mouse key it will show you that you can
use different crop tools ie: oval, small rectangle etc. but when the rectangle is select and you go to your
picture and select what you want to crop, wwhen you let up the mouse button the rectangle
on the picture changes to an oval. It still stays as a rectangle and the tool bar to the left.
Also, if you go ahead and copy the oval over to your background it is copied but shows up like it is feathered.
It is lighter and the edges are definetly feathered. I didn't believe it when he called
me so I drove over there myself. Very strange. I'm guessing that he has selected
something that he should not have. Probably several things. I suggested that we uninstall and reinstall
but he didn't like that idea. He wanted to see if it could be fixed. Is there
a way to reset all the options back to the default or is there something else that can be done.
any suggestions,

Thanks,

sounds like you have given the rectangle marquee a "feather" radius....

double click the tool.... look in the resulting "options" pallet and change "feather" to 0

then your rectangle marquee will again be a "rectangle"

If I'm off base post again.... but I bet thats the problem....


If it is just some "craziness", before reinstalling find the photoshop "prefs" file (just search "prefs" on your machine) and throw it in the recycle bin.... then launch Photoshop, it will create a new "prefs" file and your preferences will be back to default.

Thanks Tornupinside.

That worked!! he had the feathering at 100%

Thanks,

Senna