
Sample Size: This lets you select the size of the sample. Delete from Selection: It works same as above except that it deletes rather than adds. Your new selection will be added to your old selection. If you lift your mouse up and again holds down, your previous selection doesn’t vanish. Add to Selection: This option lets you store sessions. Whenever you’ve selected an area and you release the mouse button, and then you again hold down the mouse button, it’ll automatically deselect the older selections and lets you create a new one. New Selection: This option lets you create a new selection every time your releases your mouse button. You have already seen it in action in Marquee Tool and Lasso Tool. This option lets you do three things with your selection. The Tool Panel of Magic Wand Tool is pretty much similar to the Quick Selection Tool’s but there’s a slight difference. Such huge contrast can only be present because of presence of an edge. 4, there’s a huge contrast between the yellow color and the black color. Whenever Photoshop finds one, it knows that there’s an edge present out there. As I mentioned in the beginning, Magic Wand Tool uses advanced edge detection of Photoshop. Now you might be wondering “How does it work?”. This will give you complete selection like Fig. 3, just click one more time on the area which is not selected. If the selection doesn’t cover the whole subject as shown in Fig.
3, you just need to click on the umbrella, and that’s it. Now suppose you want to select the yellow umbrella in Fig. All you need to do is to activate the Magic Wand Tool and click on the area you want to select. Selection with the help of Magic Wand Tool is probably the easiest thing anyone can do in Photoshop.
Bit confused, everything will get clear in next section. It uses Photoshop’s advanced edge detection technique to find edges. The reason is that Magic Wand Tool selects a particular color out of the whole image. 2 is ideal for Magic Wand Tool if you want to select the yellow umbrella. Generally Magic Wand Tools works best when your selection needs same type of color.įig. 1 When to Use Magic Wand Tool in PhotoshopĪdobe made Magic Wand Tool for specific tasks.