Create Selections with the Magic Wand Tool
You use the Magic Wand tool to create a selection based on pixel color. This tool
is handy if you photograph someone against a solid-color wall and you want to
cut the person from the background for use in another photo. You can specify
how close in color the pixels must be before the tool adds them to a selection.
1. Select the Magic Wand tool.
2. In the options bar, type a value between
0 and 255 in the Tolerance field. A low
value selects pixels that are closer in
color, while a high value selects pixels
from a wider range of colors.
3. Accept the default Anti-Alias and
Contiguous options. Anti-aliasing
smoothes the edge of the selection,
and Contiguous confines the selection
to adjacent pixels.
4. Click the All Layers check box to
create a selection using all layers.
5. Click the color you want to select.
Photoshop Elements creates an
army of marching ants that defines
the boundary of the selection,
as shown here.
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If the selection isn??™t as desired, enter a different value in
the Tolerance field, and try again. Enter a smaller value
if the tool selected too many pixels; enter a higher value
if the tool didn??™t select enough pixels.
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