Magic Wand Tool is one of the most popular and useful
selection tools of Photoshop. This tool is used to select the same colored area
inside the image within an instant by a single click.
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| Magic Wand : An easy to use selection tool |
This tool can be seen in the Tool Panel
right beneath the Move Tool. In order to
select that tool you can not only click on that tool in the tool panel but you
can also hit W on the keyboard.
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| Magic Wand Tool can be selected by hitting W on the keyboard |
Whenever you select Magic Wand Tool, pointer of your mouse
assumes the shape of the icon that represents Magic Wand Tool in the Tool Panel
and setting options for the same tool appear instantly in the option bar. These options
are consist of different selection types or modes( e.g. New Selection, Add to
Selection, Subtract from Selection
and Intersect with Selection), Tolerance,
Anti-aliased, Contagious, and Use All
Layers.
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| Selection types, Tolerance, Anti-aliased, Contiguous and Use All Layer |
Types or Modes of Selection
New Selection
Whenever this mode is on, you cannot apply Magic Wand Tool
on the same image twice and whenever you make a new selection after
making the first one, the first selection gets removed all by itself.
Add to Selection
When this mode is on, you can make selection on the same
image two or more than two times quiet easily. With this mode selected,
Photoshop doesn't remove the first selection when you make the second one.
Subtract from Selection
This mode is used only when you want to deselect only some
part of the selected area but not the entire selection at the same time.
Intersect with Selection
This mode selects the combine or intersecting parts of the two selected areas.
Tolerance
This option is used to increase or decrease the range of
selection made by the Magic Wand Tool. For instance if you set the value of
Tolerance equal to 0 and click on white (#FFFFFF) color ,
Magic Wand Tool will select all the
pixels of exactly the same color in the image and it will not include the
pixels of any color in the selection other than the ones containing pure white (#FFFFFF) color . But if you set some higher Tolerance value e.g. 10, you
will notice that the Magic Wand Tool will increase it’s selection range and it
will include the pixels with colors similar to white in the selection rang
along with the pure white pixels.
Anti-aliased
We always put check inside the check box named Anti-aliased
when we want smooth edges of the selected area.
Contagious
We always put check inside the check box named Contagious
when we want to select only those areas of the image which are joined together.
Use All Layers
We put check inside the check box named Use All Layers when we want to apply the
Magic Wand Tool on all the layers of the document at the same time.
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