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Growing or shrinking a selection with hotkeys

Growing or shrinking a selection with hotkeys - ZBrush Tutorial

From the course: ZBrush: Tips & Tricks

Growing or shrinking a selection with hotkeys

- Managing selections in Zbrush is one of the most common things I do. So common that I have made hotkeys, so that I don't have to open up extra menus for the most common tasks. In this video, I'll show you some selection tricks that I use, and how to set hotkeys for them. Now, when I'm working on a model, we'll often need to select a part of it, so that other parts disappear. This makes it easier to focus on just one part of the model. So, for example, I might want to select just the fin. So I'm gonna come around here to a side view, I'm gonna hold down Shift, so that snaps to a perfect side view, and now we'll just hold down Ctrl + Shift and drag a box over the dorsal fin. Now, sometimes, what I might want to do is grow the selection outwards or make it shrink inwards so that it's more encompassing just the fin and nothing else. So, to do that, I could go over to the Visibility subpalette, and I could just go and click on Grow, just click this as many times as I need, or I could…

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