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Using the Magic Wand tool

Using the Magic Wand tool - Photoshop Tutorial

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Using the Magic Wand tool

- [Instructor] All right, now we'll begin our look at Photoshops automated selection tools which all live directly below the lasso tool right here. And so if you click and hold on the object selection tool you're going to see three different options. We're going to start with the last one, the one that's listed last anyway, the magic wand tool. And then we'll move on to the quick selection and object selection tools. All right, so the magic wand tool is a little bit magic frankly, all you have to do is click with the tool and then Photoshop selects what it considers to be similar colors. What it's really doing is selecting similar luminance levels on a channel by channel basis, and then averaging the results. Which is why it's best understood in a context of these gray scale gradients. And so notice this tolerance value right here, 32, that's measured in luminance levels. And so if I click in this gray area right here,…

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