Lasso Tool issues with small images

[kevjon]

I am trying to design some icons for a piece of software. They are 16 px x 16 px.

When using the lasso tools in 19.01 using add & subtract they do not work properly on images of this size. Results are all over the place.

I had to get the job done in Gimp.

[photoken]

I am trying to design some icons for a piece of software. They are 16 px x 16 px.

As an alternative suggestion, I found that the Greenfish Icon Editor is a great tool for doing icons, and it's free. Just a thought....

[bkh]

Just tried the lasso tools with a 16 x 16 rgb layer (with PL 19.02 OS X). As far as I can see, the lasso tools work fine, including "add" and "subtract". Can you give more details what goes wrong for you (maybe including a screenshot, sample file, …)?

Cheers

Burkhard.

[kevjon]

Thanks Ken

That looks really good, thanks for the tip !

[kevjon]

Just tried the lasso tools with a 16 x 16 rgb layer (with PL 19.02 OS X). As far as I can see, the lasso tools work fine, including "add" and "subtract". Can you give more details what goes wrong for you (maybe including a screenshot, sample file, …)?

Cheers

Burkhard.

Hi Burkhard

I'm working on Windows 10 (with latest Nvidia drivers) and PL19.01 and just tried it in 19.02 and the same strange results.

Start a new image 16 x 16 (72 dpi)
Add color (in my case rgb 75, 75, 75)

See images below which are hopefully self explanatory. As I continue to add or subtract it just gets weirder.

[photoken]

I'm working on Windows 10 (with latest Nvidia drivers) and PL19.01 and just tried it in 19.02 and the same strange results.

I can confirm the same on Win7 Pro x64 with PL 19.02 x64 -- the Add and Subtract functions for the Rectangular Selection tool do not give the expected results (that I get when working on a 640 x 400 image, for example).

[kevjon]

Using the Free Lasso (Add and Subtract) in polygon mode also gives funky results.

[bkh]

See images below which are hopefully self explanatory. As I continue to add or subtract it just gets weirder.

Now I see what you mean – indeed, there seems to be something wrong with the lasso display – the lasso isn't drawn around the selected pixels but inset by half a pixel. In your case, when the selection is just 1 px wide, the lasso becomes a single line (if you look closely in your screenshot, you can see the dashed lines – but mostly you see the rectangle enclosing all your selection). Here's a similar example, but with mask display on, so that it's easier to see the selected pixels (lighter grey), and I have also added a selection which is 2 px wide, so you can see the inset lasso:

lasso.png

Copying the selection works, though.

Probably not of much help, but at least this seems to be what's going on.

Cheers

Burkhard.

[kevjon]

Burkard

No worries, hopefully it is something that can be addressed in the future.

For me PL really is an awesome piece of software, I'm glad Herbert made me a aware of it on the modo forums.