The higher this setting is, the more colors will be included in the selection that is made. How Do You Select an Area with the Magic Wand?Īs I said earlier, selecting an area with the Magic Wand is as simple as clicking your photo, however, there are a few settings that dramatically alter the way that this tool operates.įirstly is the Tolerance setting, which can be set between 1 and 255. Where it works particularly well is when you have a single area of color that you want to isolate, such as this kitchen utensil handle. The Magic Wand tool offers you a greater amount of fine grained control than the Quick Selection tool, however, in some cases you may find that the latter tool is a better fit for the job. If the Magic Wand tool isn’t visible, click and hold on the Quick Selection tool and you’ll see a little fly-out menu appears. The Magic Wand tool shares a spot in the Tools palette with the Quick Selection tool and it is the fourth icon. However, while it is a simple one click operation, there is more to using this tool than just that and I’ll quickly run through the options and features in the next few steps. You just need to click on a photo and the Magic Wand tool will then take care of selecting areas of a similar hue. It makes it very easy to select areas of a photo based purely on color so that you can make adjustments to just these areas. The Magic Wand tool in Photoshop may sound like it’s rather fantastically named, however, for the right images, it can seem to work like magic. You can also find the articles that have already been published by visiting the Photo Editing 101 course page. If you want to make sure that you don’t miss future articles you can subscribe to our newsletter or follow us on Twitter, Google+, or Facebook.
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