Custom marquee shapes for Direct Selection tool like circle, star, rectangle, etc.
The Direct Selection tool would follow the logic of creating an individual shape. A marquee that can be scaled, moved and also rotated live would be a awesome feature.
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The Astute-Plugins are completely out of (cost)range, but the cool-selection looks very promising. Thank you for that Egor!
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Another plugin that can suit your needs would be Cool Selection, offering Selection Brush tool: https://www.cool-selection.com
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Yes, got it. Fixed the title and the description a bit to better suit the illustration provided — thank you!
At the moment the only way to have this in Illustrator is to use Super Marquee Tool plugin by Astute Graphics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9QuUIK_HxQ
It provides choices of Rectangular, Elliptical, Square, Round shapes, and these can be cycled on the fly by pressing a dedicated key. -
Thinking about it - guess a scalable and rotatable circular selection would fit most of the needs.
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Can you please elaborate more? I have an idea in my head when I read this, but I suspect it’s a different one...
Perhaps some mockups to explain it?
