Course Content
Introduction
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Tools Palette
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Basic Selection
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Freeform selection
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Selection based on Colors
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Painting Tools
Layers
Type Text
Types of Mask
Creating Basic and Custom shapes
Adjustments
Photoshop 7.0
About Lesson

Magic Wand (KBS: W): used to select pixels in the image having similar color values of the pixel upon which clicked.

Using Magic Wand:
Click once in the image to select

Options of Magic Wand:

  • Tolerance: values 0 to 255. Lower value selects pixels very similar, higher value increases range of colors to be selected.
  • Contiguous: selects only adjacent pixels when checked. Otherwise, selects pixels from anywhere in the image
  • Use All Layers: specifies whether to select from current layer or all layers in the image

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