RASA star halo & Mask ability to create perfect circles

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RICH-DSO
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RASA star halo & Mask ability to create perfect circles

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Would be nice if in mask, the user could create a perfect circle. Like point the mouse on the screen and with mouse wheel enlarged a perfect circle.

The lasso in most cases is not adequate to mask a perfect circular star halo.

It could then be used to create a mask for very large star halo. The RASA creates huge halo that must be fixed using shrink or heal module.
A suggestion to improve on the Mask module.

Richard
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Re: RASA star halo & Mask ability to create perfect circles

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On a similar vane, if I do a single pixel and then grow blob the star I am covering the mask grows very angular, or grow used on a auto star mask grows increasingly angular so in the end my star is covered by a diamond type shape. It would be lovely if the star shape mask were to grow retaining a circular profile please.
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happy-kat wrote: Fri Mar 19, 2021 10:36 am It would be lovely if the star shape mask were to grow retaining a circular profile please.
Plus 1 for that.

Here's what I see in those circumstances:

starting out round:
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Six clicks later:
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Re: RASA star halo & Mask ability to create perfect circles

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Thank you. I will put this on my list.
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Re: RASA star halo & Mask ability to create perfect circles

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Thank you! I have been wanting a circular mask tool forever!
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Yes thank you, this is a must update, thanks for highlighting and noting!
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Thanks for reminding me!

Coming to a public alpha near you, soon;
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Now available in the first public alpha of the upcoming 1.8 version.
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admin wrote: Fri Jul 23, 2021 6:09 am Now available in the first public alpha of the upcoming 1.8 version.
That's a really nice addition :D very useful!
thank you Ivo! ^^

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Re: RASA star halo & Mask ability to create perfect circles

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I’m sure the is a circle option in the mask menu are you using 1.8.511.
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