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title: "Soft Selection"
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description: "This page documents the Soft Selection for hair tools in Cinema 4D. It weights the effect of grooming tools by distance, shown as a color gradient in the …"
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# Soft Selection

> **Note:** **What is it about?**
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> This page documents the **Soft Selection** for hair tools in **Cinema 4D**. It weights the effect of grooming tools by distance, shown as a color gradient in the viewport — so brush strokes blend smoothly into the surrounding hairstyle instead of ending abruptly.

Soft selection can be applied to all Hair selection tools, i.e., elements that lie outside a given tool's radius will not be affected as strongly. The effect of a given tool will abate more, the further away an element is located from the tool. The weighted selections are shown in color in the editor view: Blue = not selected; red = selected.

The **Soft Selection** settings can be found in the Soft Selection Manager dialog window that opens when you select **Soft Selection Manager** from the main Hair menu.