Grow\expand\dilate pixels filter?

[Licanin]

Afte you made your selection, go to select/modify/expand. Select how many pixels you want to expand.

[Whipyo]

Try the minimum filter.

Filter/other/minimum.

[teacup]

Afte you made your selection, go to select/modify/expand. Select how many pixels you want to expand.

This only expands the actual selection its self, not any part of the image selected. See my pic, I actually want the pixels at the edge of the selection to be 'stretched' out as it expands.

Try the minimum filter. Filter/other/minimum.

Doesn't really give me anything useful, just seems to get rid of all the detail within a selection.

I've tried all the filters that are built in to photoshop by none of them give me anything useful. Anyone have any other tricks for accomplishing this?

[Datameister]

It took me a moment to understand what you mean, but I get it now. Unfortunately, there's no easy way to do this in Photoshop--at least, none that I'm aware of. It would definitely be a handy tool.

Actually, you can sort of do this if the object in question is a circle. You have to use the Polar Coordinates filter--it's a little sloppy.

[Xdreamer79]

I suggest you can do it like this:

- CTRL+click your shape layer
- Contract it by 1px (how to do this look some posts above)
- Invert the selection (CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+I)
- Change to the selection tool (M)
- Right click --> Transform selection and drag it as much as you need to expand while holding ALT


EDIT: Okay this didn't worked. I got a small workaround.

- CTRL+click your shape layer
- Contract it by 1px (how to do this look some posts above)
- Invert the selection (CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+I)
- CTRL+J for a new layer with the selection
- Now you can press the ALT button and the arrow keys for your prefered direction (pressing the ALT button on your keyboard give you on every move a new layer)

[teacup]

I suggest you can do it like this:

Thanks for giving me some ideas, it had never even occured to me to do it manually! I figured out a way to do it, and use an action to automate it.

I duplicate the original layer 4 times, and nudge each one up, down, left or right 1 pixel, combine them together and apply a slight blur. This is the action, so everytime I run it it expands the layer by 1 pixel in each direction. Works brilliantly.

Thanks for all the suggestions :thumbsup:

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