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> Hi Michael,
>
> Sorry for the delay in replying to you, i have the imagej posts
> filtering into a separate folder in my email client but sometimes
> they go straight to my main inbox instead and i don't seem to be able
> to keep track of both locations at the same time! I had one from
> Wayne hiding there too and have apologised to him.
>
> You raised some good points here so glad i found your email in the
> end! The key aspect for me is this: So you can create a selection,
> press 'b' and then deselect all (shift-A). I wasn't expecting to have
> to press shift-A to allow the selection brush to paint a new
> selection elsewhere. What i have been doing is adding a selection
> but ensuring that it is not just a single click but i click and hold
> and paint an area larger than the width of the selection brush
> itself, then when i press b the selection brush isn't in repair mode
> and i can paint a new selection elsewhere. But i like your
> suggestion of making a shortcut key to add the overlay and select
> none. Is there anyway to make this work without having to install
> this mini macro or adding to the startup macros, i.e. initialise it
> within my analysis macro somehow? The only reason i ask is because
> anyone using my macro would possibly do it on their own computer so
> they would have to make sure they had the shortcut macro setup before
> running.
>
> I'm guessing the macro would look something like below: macro "Add
> Overlay [o]" { run("Add Selection…"); run("Select None"); }
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
>
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> On 8 Dec 2016, at 18:10, Michael Schmid
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> Hi Matt,
>
> according to my understanding, the selection brush is mainly meant as
> a 'repair selection' brush. If there is no selection, it creates
> one. If there is a selection: If you start brushing outside the
> current selection, it is in 'remove from selection' mode, and you can
> use it to remove a few pixels from the margin of the selection
> (because the selection was a bit too large). If you start inside the
> current selection, it adds to the selection, e.g. if you want to
> extend the borders a bit. You can force the behavior with the SHIFT
> (add) and ALT (subtract) modifier keys. I am not aware of a
> possibility to have the selection brush delete the old selection and
> create a new one.
>
> So you can create a selection, press 'b' and then deselect all
> (shift-A). Then add a new brush point. For convenience, you could
> have the 'add to overlay' and 'deselect' in a macro with a shortcut.
>
> Alternatively, use the Overlay brush.
>
> Michael
>
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> On 2016-12-08 10:15, PEARSON Matthew wrote: Hi all, I think i have
> cracked my problem with the selection brush and in fact realise i'd
> asked a similar question a couple of years ago but then didn't pursue
> the idea. I can now get the selection brush to create selections
> around the image but the work flow for doing this seems a little
> strange. These are the steps that work for me: 1.) Left click on the
> image to create a circular selection with the selection brush 2.)
> Left click again anywhere on the image but not on the circular
> selection 3.) Press the b key (adds the first selection to the
> overlay i believe) 4.) I can now left click and add another circular
> selection on the image 5.) Repeat above for all selections then 5.)
> Image>Overlay>To ROI Manager (adds all the overlays as separate
> roi's) I'm not sure why i have to do step 2.) before i press b. Its
> not a big deal but would be good if you could just left click on the
> next area, perhaps there is good reason for this. Thanks, Matt
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