

Shades or colors along the edges of a selection, lower the Tolerance value incrementally: Click with a Tolerance of 30–40įirst, lower the value to 15–20 and click again, then finally lower it to 5–10 and click once more. For example, for more control when adding unselected You can change the Tolerance value for the Magic Wand tool between clicks.Optional: If you have selected a background area that you want to remove and you clicked a layer in step 1, press Backspace/Delete A or if you clicked the Background in step 1, press Ctrl-Backspace/Cmd-Delete.(This command works the same whether the Contiguous option is checked or not.) To select additional, noncontiguous areas of a similar color or shade based on the current Tolerance value, right-click in.Aī Some areas of the keys became selected, so we are using the Quick Selection tool with Alt/Option held down to remove them

To add to the selection, Shift-click any unselected areas.Unless your image contains nothing but totally flat color areas (which is unlikely), you’ll have to do some extra work to.To select possible occurrences of a similar color on all visible layers, check Sample All Layers, or uncheck this option to select colors on just the current layer.To select similarly colored, noncontiguous (unconnected) areas throughout the image with the same click. Check Contiguous to limit the selection to areas that are connected to the first pixel you click, or uncheck this option to allow the tool.Check Anti-alias to allow the tool to add semitransparent pixels along the edges of the color areas it detects.Choose a Tolerance value (use the scrubby slider) to control the range of colors the tool selects (for a starting value, try between 30 and.Choose the Magic Wand tool (W or Shift-W).To select color areas with the Magic Wand tool Like the Color Range command, which is discussed on pages 156–157, the Magic Wand lets you control the range of pixels the tool selects, but unlike Color Range, this tool lets you add nonsimilar
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Photoshop CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide
