Magic wand selection in Photoshop. Magic Wand. How to create a selection using the Magic Wand

We continue to explore the capabilities of the graphic editor Adobe Photoshop . We are already familiar with the Object Selection tools. And in this lesson we will get acquainted with two more new tools for selecting objects - these are the tools: Magic wand And Quick selection. These tools allow you to select objects with complex shapes. This group is located on the Toolbar, fourth from the top (Figure 1).

Picture 1.

Tool Magic wand, belongs to the category of tools for highlighting individual areas of the image. This tool works by selecting pixels that are as close in color as possible. View and change tool settings Magic wand can be done on the panel of this tool, which is located above the image.

This tool has four selection mode buttons. The first button is New selection, when you click on this button, the old selection will disappear and a new selection will be created (Figure 2).

Figure 2.

The second button is Add to selection, i.e. the new selection will add to the existing selection. The same effect can be obtained by holding the key Shift on keyboard.

Third button Subtract from a selection. If you switch to this mode, the selected selection in the image will subtract each new selection from the existing selection. The same effect can be obtained by holding the key Alt on keyboard.

Fourth button Intersection with the selected area. If you enable this mode, the program will automatically calculate common areas of selections and select the area that intersects with the selected area. We get the same thing if we press the key combination: Alt+Shift.

Next tool setting Magic wand- This Tolerance. If you enter the desired value in this parameter, the program will determine the degree of difference between colors and shades. By setting different values ​​for this parameter (more or less), you can get different results when working with this tool.

Let's break it down into specific example. I am loading the original image (Figure 3). We see that my tolerance value is set to 80. This means that the higher the tolerance values, the higher the degree of difference between colors and shades; the lower this value is, the correspondingly less the degree of difference will be.

Figure 3.

Next tool parameter Magic wand(on the panel above) - this is Smoothing. This option smoothes out jagged edges along the selection border that the Magic Wand can tolerate. This option must always be enabled to obtain high-quality results.

Let's take an example of how the tool works. Magic wand. To do this, upload the original photo with which we will experiment (Figure 4).

Figure 4.

Image of a bunch of grapes in in this case is on a uniform blue background. Of course, such an image can be selected using other selection tools, but this will take a lot of time. So we'll take the tool Magic wand. To select grapes, just click on any place with this tool. We immediately created a selection along with the background (Figure 5).

Figure 5.

But we need to select the grapes, and not the surrounding background; to do this, just use the panel at the top of the menu: Selection select item: Inversion. Or use hotkeys: Ctrl+Shift+I. Now only the grapes are highlighted and can be safely transferred with the tool to a new background image (Figure 6).

Figure 6.

But the background in images is not always uniform; most often it differs in shades, texture and is heterogeneous. For example, let's upload a photo (Figure 7).

Figure 7.

In the original photo we see that the sky background has more dark color at the top of the image and lighter towards the bottom. Choosing a tool Magic wand, and click on any place in the image; if the tolerance value in the panel at the top is set to small (up to 40), then a small part of the object will be highlighted.

By changing the tolerance value, we thereby adjust the size of the object selection. Here you need to experiment a little by changing different tolerance values ​​and achieve the optimal one. In my case, with a valid value of 60, the entire image is selected. Also on the panel at the top select Select-Invert(Figure 8).

Figure 8.

Now the bird can be freely transferred to another background image using the tool Moving. For example, like this (Figure 9).

Figure 9.

The next tool in this group is Quick selection(Figure 1 above). This tool is convenient for selecting the object itself inside the background. This tool works like a brush along the contrasting edges of an image. For example, upload a photo (Figure 10).

Figure 10.

The brush size is selected at the top of the image. The size is small so that it does not go beyond the outline of our image. I move the cursor over the object that I want to select, hold down the left mouse button and move the cursor inside the object (Figure 11).

Figure 11.

We have selected an object that can just as freely be moved to another background image, for example like this (Figure 12).

Figure 12.

As a result, we got a completely new image and a new image.

Tools Magic wand And Quick selection, we are finishing another lesson. Having such knowledge, you can easily influence any objects, separating them from the general background and creating new wonderful and beautiful compositions.

All the best.

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The Magic Wand tool is one of the most convenient and frequently used tools in Photoshop.

How does the Magic Wand tool work?

This tool is very easy to use. Turn on the Magic Wand in the Photoshop toolbar and click on the pixel of the color you need. The tool automatically selects pixels of approximately the same color and brightness.

If you're working in Photoshop CS2 or earlier, the Magic Wand is always present in the Tools panel. Starting with Photoshop CS3, the Quick Selection tool is placed on the panel along with the Magic Wand. Therefore, if you do not see the tool you need, click on the Quick Selection tool icon in the toolbar and hold the mouse button for a couple of seconds. Select the Magic Wand tool from the drop-down menu.

The Magic Wand tool works by selecting pixels by color. Depending on the settings, the tool can select all adjacent pixels of similar color or all pixels of the selected color in the entire image, no matter where they are placed or whether they are adjacent to each other.

In the Magic Wand tool options bar, you can set the following settings for this tool:

Selection mode selection buttons

Four buttons on the options bar set the selection mode in relation to previously selected areas.

New Selection button - if this button is pressed, and it is pressed by default, then each time you click the mouse, a new selection will be created and the previous one will be removed.

Add to Selection button. When you click this button, each new selection will be added to an existing selection (another more convenient way to add new areas to a selection is to hold down the Shift key on your keyboard).

Subtruct from Selection button. When you click this button, each new selection will be subtracted from the existing selection (another way is to select areas by holding down the Alt key on your keyboard). For the Magic Wand tool, the action is completely unpredictable, because... it is difficult to imagine which pixels will be included in the new selection when different meanings parameter Tolerance.

Intersect with Selection button When this button is enabled, after creating a new Photoshop selections will automatically detect common areas of the previous and new selections and select only the area of ​​their intersection (another method is the Alt + Shift key combination)

Tolerance

The Tolerance parameter determines how different in tone and color pixels can be for inclusion in the selection.

If you set this parameter to 30 and click on the top of the sunflower, the light yellow part of the flower will be selected. To the pixel we selected, Photoshop added other pixels of 30 different similar shades, darker and brighter.

By increasing the Tolerance value to 60, we get a larger selection area:

With a Tolerance of 150, all the yellow petals of the flower will be highlighted, which is what was required.

The maximum value for this parameter is 255

The higher the value, the wider the range of pixels that will be highlighted. Photoshop.

Contiguous parameter

The Contiguous option is enabled by default and determines that Photoshop will select only those pixels that are adjacent to the initial selection area. Any pixels that are the same color but separated from the area you clicked on will not be selected.

If you uncheck the Contiguous pixels option, all pixels included in the tolerance located anywhere in the image will be selected.

In the photo with a sunflower, yellow splashes stand out against a dark background in the middle of the flower. When the Contiguous checkbox is enabled, they will not be selected, and when disabled, they will also be included in the selection.

If you need to select the entire flower together with the dark middle, then press and hold the Shift key on your keyboard and click on the dark middle of the sunflower (or turn on the Add to Selection button). To the already selected area of ​​the yellow petals, another selected area of ​​the dark middle of the flower will be added.

Anti-aliasing option

When selecting with the Magic Wand tool, jagged edges sometimes appear. To smooth out a jagged edge by slightly blurring, use the Anti-alias option in the settings panel. This option is enabled by default and is best left enabled.

Sample all layers option

By default, the Magic Wand only selects pixels within the layer you're currently working on. If a document consists of many layers and you need to select elements of a certain color on all layers at once, then you should enable the Sample all layers checkbox and work with all layers at once. In practice, it is rarely used and you should immediately disable this option if it is no longer needed. If you don't notice that the selection works for all layers, you can ruin the image.

Typically, the best results are achieved by using different methods. For example, in the case of highlighting a sunflower, the fastest way to do it is this:

  1. Select the yellow petals using the Magic Wand tool (Tolerance -150).
  2. Choose any Lasso tool(Lasso).
  3. Enable the Add to Selection button.
  4. Outline the dark center of the flower, including the petals.

The work takes a few seconds.

Tool Magic wand(Magic Wand) is one of the oldest tools in Photoshop. Unlike other tools that select pixels in an image based on shapes or the edges of an object, Magic wand(Magic Wand) selects pixels based on tone and color. Many people are disappointed in Magic wand(Magic Wand) (giving it the unkind name of "the dreaded wand") because it sometimes seems impossible to control which pixels the tool needs to select. In this tutorial we will look at magical properties instrument, how the wand actually works, and learn to recognize the situations for which this ancient, but still incredibly sought-after instrument was created.

Selecting with the Magic Wand Tool
If you are using Photoshop CS2 or earlier, you can select Magic wand(Magic Wand) by simply clicking on it in the toolbar. In Photoshop CS3, Adobe introduces adjacent With a magic wand(Magic Wand) tool Quick selection(Quick Selection). So if you are using CS3 or higher (I'm using Photoshop CS5 here), you need to click on the tool icon Quick selection(Quick Selection) in the toolbar by holding down the mouse button for a couple of seconds until the drop-down menu appears. Select from menu Magic wand(Magic Wand):

Magic wand (MagicWand) is located in a group with the Quick Selection tool (Quickselection) in versionPhotoshopC.S.3 and above.

Magic in a wand
Before we look at the action Magic wand(Magic Wand) on real example, let's see how the tool works and that there is no magic involved. Here is a simple image I created, it consists of a black and white gradient divided by a red cross line down the center:

A simple gradient separated by a red stripe.

As I already said, Magic wand(Magic Wand) in Photoshop selects pixels based on tone and color. When we click on an area of ​​the image with the tool, Photoshop determines the tone and color of the area we clicked on and selects pixels that have the same color and brightness values. It does Magic wand(Magic Wand) is indispensable when highlighting color on large areas.
For example, let's say I want to highlight horizontal stripe. All I have to do is click somewhere inside the red bar With a magic wand(Magic Wand). Photoshop will see that I've clicked on an area of ​​red and will immediately select every pixel in the image that has the same shade of red, thereby highlighting the red stripe immediately after I click it:

A single click with the Magic Wand (MagicWand) is all that is needed to highlight the entire red stripe.

Tolerance (Tolerance)
Selecting the solid-colored stripe was easy enough since there were no more pixels in the image that were the same shades of red, but let's see what happens if I click With a magic wand(Magic Wand) by gradient. I click on the gray area in the center of the gradient above the red stripe:

The selected area after clicking on the center of the upper gradient.

This time, Photoshop has selected a central range of brightness values, limited to pixels that have exactly the same tone and color as the central gray area I clicked on. Why is that? To find the answer, we need to look at the tool settings panel at the top of the screen. In particular, we need to pay attention to the value of the parameter Tolerance(Tolerance):

Parameter Magic Wand (MagicWand).

Parameter Tolerance Tolerance tells Photoshop how different in tone and color the pixels that make up the area we've chosen to include in the selection can be. Default value Tolerance(Tolerance) is set to 32, which means that Photoshop will select any pixels that are the same color as the area we clicked on and add to them 32 different shades of darker and 32 different shades of brighter. In the case of my gradient, which includes 256 levels of brightness between pure white and pure black, Photoshop selected pixels that ranged between 32 shades darker and 32 shades brighter than the gray shade I clicked on.
Let's see what happens if I increase the value Tolerance(Tolerance) and try again. I'll increase the value to 64:

Increasing the value of the Tolerance parameter (Tolerance) from 32 to 64.

At Admission(Tolerance), doubled compared to the previous example, if I click With a magic wand(Magic Wand) at the same center point of the gradient, Photoshop must select an area twice as large as the previous example because it includes pixels within 64 shades darker and 64 shades brighter than the main one grey colour, which I clicked on. So here's what we have:

This time with an increased Tolerance value (Tolerance), the selected gradient area has become twice as large.

What if I want to select only the shade of the gradient that I click on? In this case I should set Tolerance(Tolerance) to 0, which will tell Photoshop not to include any other pixels in the selection, only the ones I clicked on:

Setting the Tolerance value (Tolerance) to 0.

When the parameter is set Tolerance(Tolerance) to 0, I'll click again on the same point in the center of the gradient, and this time we get a very thin selection line. Every pixel that has a different tone from the gray I clicked on was ignored:

Increase or decrease the Tolerance value (Tolerance) has a big impact on which pixels in the image will be selected by the Magic Wand (MagicWand).

You can install Tolerance(Tolerance) to any value between 0 and 255. The higher the value, the wider the range of pixels that Photoshop will select. Tolerance(Tolerance) set to 255 will highlight the entire image, so you should generally choose lower values.

Adjacent pixels (Contiguous)
When we looked at the parameter settings Tolerance(Tolerance) Magic wand(Magic Wand), you may have noticed one thing. Every time I clicked on the gradient above the red bar, Photoshop would highlight a certain range of pixels, but only within the gradient I clicked on. The gradient below the red bar, identical to the gradient I clicked on, was completely ignored, even though it contains exactly the same shades of gray that should have been included in the selection. Why weren't the pixels from the bottom gradient included?
The reason for this is another important parameter in the settings panel - Adjacent pixels(Contiguous). When the parameter is checked Adjacent pixels(Contiguous), as set by default, Photoshop will select only those pixels that are within the acceptable color and color range defined by the parameter Tolerance(Tolerance). Any pixels located within the parameter values Tolerance(Tolerance), but those separated from the area you clicked on by pixels not included in the specified range will not be selected.
In the case of my gradient, the pixels at the bottom of the gradient that were supposed to be included in the selection were ignored because they were separated from the area I clicked by a red stripe whose pixel colors were not within the limits set by the parameter

Tolerance(Tolerance). Let's see what happens if I uncheck the option Adjacent pixels(Contiguous).

Adjacent pixels (Contiguous) are highlighted by default. Click inside the box to disable the option if necessary.

I'll click on the center of the top gradient again with Magic wand(Magic Wand), and this time, with the parameter unchecked Adjacent pixels(Contiguous), pixels of the lower gradient that are within the specified parameter value Tolerance(Tolerance) will also be highlighted, even though they are still separated from the area I clicked by a red stripe:

When the Adjacent Pixels option is disabled (Contiguous), any pixels throughout the image that are within the specified limit of the Tolerance parameter (Tolerance), will be highlighted.

Extra options
Tolerance(Tolerance) and Adjacent pixels(Contiguous) - two parameters that have the greatest influence on Magic wand(Magic Wand), but there are a couple of other parameters that are of minor importance. Once the tool Magic wand(Magic Wand) selects pixels, it selects them in a quadrilateral shape, the selections can sometimes have jagged edges, often called a "ladder" effect. Photoshop can smooth out edges after applying a slight blur to them, a procedure better known as Anti-aliasing. We can turn the tool's anti-aliasing on and off Magic wand(Magic Wand) by checking or unchecking the option Smoothing(Anti-alias) in the settings panel. This option is enabled by default, and in most cases you can leave it enabled.

Leave Antialiasing (Anti- alias) turned on, in order for the Magic Wand (MagicWand) smoothed the edges of the selection.

Also by default when you click on an image With a magic wand(Magic Wand), it only looks for pixels within the layer you are currently working on. This is usually how we want to use this tool, but if your document has many layers and you want to include all the layers in your selection, select the option Sample from all layers(Sample all layers) in the settings panel. By default it is not checked:

Leave a Sample from all layers (Samplealllayers) unchecked to limit its selection to the active layer.

Case Study
Here is an image that I opened in Photoshop. I like this photo overall, but the sky could have looked more interesting. I'm thinking of replacing the sky with something else:

The pure blue sky looks a little banal.

Moving the sky means that first I have to select it. As I noted earlier, Magic wand(Magic Wand) is characterized by highlighting large areas of the same color, and since the sky is pure blue, with only slight variations in tones, Magic wand(Magic Wand) will cope with this task with ease. With the tool active and all its parameters set to default ( Tolerance(Tolerance) 32, Adjacent pixels(Contiguous) is checked), I click somewhere at the top of the image:

Click the Magic Wand (MagicWand) in the upper left part of the sky.

Since the sky is completely blue, Magic wand(Magic wand) there were no problems with its selection after a single click. Despite this, in reality the sky transitions from a light blue hue just above the buildings to a darker hue at the top of the photo, and the meaning Tolerance(Tolerance) 32 is not high enough to cover the full range of tonal values, leaving a large area of ​​light blue above the buildings out of focus:

Some bright areas of the sky above buildings were not included in the selection.

Adding selections
My first attempt to create a sky selection was unsuccessful because the value Tolerance(Tolerance) was too low, I should have tried increasing the value Tolerance(Tolerance), but there is more easy way fix the problem. Like other Photoshop tools, Magic wand(Magic Wand) has an "add to existing selections" option, which means I can keep the selection I made earlier and just add more sky to it.
To add a selection, hold down the Shift key and click on the area you want to add. You will see a small plus sign (+) in the lower left corner of the cursor Magic wand(Magic Wand), allowing us to understand that the parameter is active “add to selection”. In my case, I'll hold down the Shift key and click somewhere in the sky area that wasn't included in the original selection:

While holding down the keyShift, click on the area you want to add.

This way Photoshop will add to the existing selection new site sky. All that was needed was two mouse clicks:

Now the sky is completely selected.

Selecting what is not needed in the first place
So, since the sky will change, I want the selection to include the image below the sky, since that's the part I want to keep. And drawing a selection using tools such as Polygonal/Polygonal Lasso (Polygonal Lasso) or Magnetic lasso(Magnetic Lasso) would take a lot of time and nerves, while Magic wand(Magic Wand) made it easy and simple. Now this is the most popular and very accessible extraction technique using Magic wand(Magic Wand) - first we select the area that we do not want to include in the work, and then we simply invert the selection!
To invert the selection, which will select everything that was not included in the selection (in my case, everything below the sky) and deselect everything that was selected (the sky), go to the menu Selection(Select) at the top of the screen and select Inverse(Invert). Or use more quick way invert the selection - use the short command on the keyboard Shift+Ctrl+I (Win) / Shift + Command + I (Mac):

Go to the menu Select - Invert (Select - Inverse).

With an inverted selection, the sky is no longer selected, just everything below it in the image is selected:

To replace the sky at this point, I'll press Ctrl+J (Win) / Command+J (Mac) to quickly copy the section I saved to a new layer in the Layers palette:

The selection has been copied to a new layer above the original image.

Next, I'll open the image that I want to replace the original sky with. I'll press Ctrl+A (Win) / Command+A (Mac) to quickly select the entire image, then Ctrl+C (Win) / Command+C (Mac) to copy it to the clipboard:

A photo that will replace the sky of the original image.

I'll switch back to my original image and click on the Background layer in the Layers panel so that when I paste the image, it will appear as a layer between the two existing layers:

Selecting the background layer.

Finally, I'll press Ctrl+V (Win) / Command+V (Mac) to paste the image into the document. Everyone loves blue skies, but sometimes a little cloud can make a bigger impact:

The palate was successfully (and fairly easily) replaced.

Like other Photoshop tools, success in using Magic wand(Magic Wand) depends on whether you know the best cases to use this tool. As we saw from the lesson, Magic wand(Magic Wand) best for highlighting large quantity pixels that have a similar tonality and color are ideal for highlighting and replacing a plain sky in a photo or for images where the subject is against a uniform background. Use the “select what you don’t initially need” technique in cases where selecting an area around an object using Magic wand(Magic Wand) can be faster and easier than selecting the object itself using other tools.

Hello dear friend. If you are reading this, I can congratulate you, because you are a real wizard! Yes, yes, you heard right, wizard! And if the owl has not yet flown to you with a letter, do not be sad, be patient, we have already sent you a letter and a ticket.

"A magic wand is a magical artifact that allows a person with mystical abilities to create spells"

Simply put, he waved his wand and poof! - a miracle happened. And it will be a real miracle if everyone survives. Seriously, don't wave your wand left and right, Muggles might see you or you might accidentally hurt someone.

"The magic wand chooses the wizard"

Absolutely right. If the wand decides that you are not suitable for it, it will not obey you.

Warning! Do not give to children under eleven years of age, do not burn, do not bury in the garden, do not give to Muggles, do not put in your mouth, nose /why do you think Voldemort walks without a nose?/, ears.

SECURITY MEASURES

This has already been discussed a little earlier. So, in detail:

1. Don’t poke people with a stick.
2. Animals are also not necessary.
3. And in objects too
4. When cleaning your magic wand, DO NOT WIPE IT WITH CLOTHING UNDER ANY CASE unless you want to accidentally burn it.
5. And other people's clothes too
6. Don’t set people or animals on fire
7. Don't take your stick to the trampoline or scuba diving.
8. Don’t try to protect yourself from gopniks with a stick. Seriously, if you want to live and do magic, you don’t have to show them magic.
9. DO NOT CARE IN FRONT OF FANATIC BELIEVERS
10. Cast your spells correctly when Hermione is around

Also, before you cast magic, make sure that there are no small children or Muggles nearby, as well as particularly impressionable ladies and those with heart problems.

YOUR FIRST ACQUAINTANCE WITH A MAGIC WAND

So, you bought a magic wand, Mr. Ollivander sighed calmly and quickly kicked you out of his store, you are happy and you really want to start doing magic right now.

But, what a shame, you are not allowed to use your wand outside of Hogwarts! How to be?

1. No way. Seriously, just wait for the train, and then do magic to your heart's content.

Finally, after all this time, you board the train. You can start witchcraft!

2. First of all, put on a smart face and say a spell that you came up with as a child.
For example: Sylvia cast a spell and drew a golden rat instead of a gray one.

3. Feel like an idiot and finally open the textbook! You didn't forget it at home, did you?

4. Choose the simplest spell. No, not Imperius! And not Avada Kedavra. For example, Lumos.

5. Your wand has started to glow, congratulations!

6. Now look for how to cancel the Lumos spell. You won't be walking around with a glow stick, after all.

7. Are you almost there, but still can’t turn it off? Oh, come on. Seriously? Okay, I'll give you a hint. Knox. How does it not work? Well, give it here, now I’ll show you how to do it...

ON LESSONS

1. Never, hear me, never be smart like Hermione Granger. Everyone will hate you. And where to go, you and Lumos couldn’t figure it out.

2. Repeat after the teacher. Movement to movement, letter to letter. No retreats. Otherwise, you may accidentally resurrect Voldemort. I'm serious.

3. Vivat, idiot, you were able to do it! Now a crazy bull is running around the school, which you accidentally summoned instead of the banal Wingardium Leviossa. Well, who pulled your tongue, how did you even come up with the idea to blurt out Apricot Grape?! You're incorrigible.

CARE OF THE STICK

1. You managed to stain your wand with some nasty stuff in just a week. By the way, what is this? Although no, it’s better not to say. Put the wand on the table.

2. Finally find normal napkins and stick products! Oh, you don't have them? Ask someone.

3. You finally found everything you needed. And he wanted to go eat. You're incorrigible. Sit and work!

4. Instructions are written on the stick care products. There's even a talking photograph, it will tell you everything.

5. Did you do it? Well done. Now wipe everything off with a napkin. With a napkin, I say, not a shirt, idiot!

6. You cleaned your wand. Don't pick the troll's nose and ears with it anymore, please.

For this I bow out. I hope that you won’t kill or injure anyone.

Hello comrade! And you are all already in anticipation. Magic wand! The name is wonderful, it sounds tempting, doesn’t it? Indeed, in many cases it really simplifies the work, both for an optical designer and for a beginner in this field. Everyone will love this tool. Well, let's get acquainted with this tool.

Where is the magic wand in Photoshop?

This tool, like everything from the Tools section, is located on the panel, which is discussed in detail in this lesson. It looks like this: To activate this tool, simply click on it on the toolbar, as always. Why am I... Now let’s look at the principle of operation of the Magic Wand tool.

How does the Magic Wand work?

This tool works using an algorithm that makes selections by analyzing the color and tone of the pixels. To put it simply, then Magic wand highlights pixels of similar color, and tone is also an important parameter for it. Let's look at the theoretical calculation above in practice. Let's look at the settings and operating modes Magic wand .

  1. Most normal selection mode, click on the desired area and get a selection with the specified settings.
  2. Zoom mode or addition. A new selection will be added to the original selection.
  3. Magic wand will exclude the selection already made. This is subtraction mode.
  4. This mode, on the contrary, will leave only the area of ​​intersection of two selections, and will delete the rest.
  5. (a-d) — Responsible for the analyzed area. If we choose 1 - then an area of ​​1 pixel will be analyzed and the color will be taken from there. If 51x51, then an area of ​​51x51 pixels will be analyzed

Smoothing, as has already been said 100,500 times, is responsible for the peach-smooth edges of the selection. The fact is that the pixel is square by standard, so anti-aliasing allows you to avoid the “ladder effect”. This is clearly visible in the illustration. The operation of all other modes is shown in the figure. And some are discussed in detail below.

Tolerance

Tolerance— this parameter is responsible for how many pixels of different tones will be highlighted Magic wand. In other words, admission 10 means that in addition to the color of the pixel you clicked on, several more colors will be added to the selection, namely, 10 shades lighter And 10 shades darker. And this is shown in the picture above.

Adjacent pixels

Adjacent pixels— if this checkbox is checked, then the pixels will be highlighted only around the original zone and if there is some kind of obstacle, like my pink stripe, then the pixels on the other side of the obstacle will not be highlighted. If you tick adjacent pixels remove, then all pixels of the specified color throughout the document will be highlighted. And this is clearly visible in the illustration above.

Sample from all layers- it means that Magic wand will take colors not only from the active layer, but also from all layers below the active one. Sometimes this can be useful. That's all for today! Thank you for your attention and create magic with with a magic wand =)

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