Voila! the selection marquee re-appeared, and the tool and the resulting selection marquee is behaving normally again. in less time with the Quick Selection tool - even when youre selecting the. After a few minutes of trying to figure it out, I activated the visibility of the 2nd layer. Photoshop is the premiere application for image editing it is a tool that. The *inactive* bottom layer was turned off (that is, the layer visibility was unchecked in the Layers panel). All this in 5 minutes opposed to lets say 20 minutes if you decide to draw the silhouette from scratch using the Pen Tool. The quick selection tool in Photoshop CS3 is a new kind of magic wand tool that can make intelligent selections based on tone and color. All you have to do is make a selection of an object, refine the selection edge, turn to work path and finally define custom shape. As Quick Selection Tool works extremely fast, the selection made using Quick Selection Tool may be imperfect and irregular in shape. I was working on the top layer - the active layer. In this tutorial I will show you a quick way to create custom shapes in Photoshop using a selection. In my case, I discovered this behavior while working on a simple file consisting of two layers. In the Options Bar, set the standard selection options. This makes it the best choice for simpler shapes that need a crisp edge. When it comes to clean edges, nothing beats the pen tool. If I clicked on the selection again, the marquee re-appeared as I held the mouse button, and it had the previous Quick Selection there - so the selection was still there, it just disappeared as soon as I let go of the mouse button. It shares a spot on the Toolbox with the Quick Selection Tool, which we cover in the next lesson. Using the Pen tool in Photoshop to cut out hard edged selections. I had the exact same issue - while using the Quick Selection tool, the selection marquee disappeared as soon as I let go of the mouse button.