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Chapter 6: Advanced Photo Editing
Microsoft Digital Image Standard User’s Manual
The Magic Wand
The Magic Wand lets you select parts of an object that are the same or
similar colors. The Magic Wand is useful for selecting a consistently colored
area—a blue sky for example—without having to trace around it.
1. Make sure that the Stack appears in the workspace.
2. On the Stack, click the object of which you want to make a partial selec
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tion.
3. Click the Magic Wand button on the toolbar.
4. If the Magic Wand options palette is not showing, click the Selection
button on the toolbar.
5. To select only similarly colored pixels that are connected to each other,
select the Contiguous check box. Also, selecting the Smooth Edges
check box reduces the jaggedness of your selection.
6. On the Magic Wand options palette, enter a value in the Tolerance box.
The Tolerance is the range of colors that will be included in the selection.
7. On the Magic Wand options palette, click whether you want to make a
new selection
, add to the current selection , or subtract from the
current selection
.
8. On the picture, click the color you want to select.
9. If the selection includes too much or too little of the area you want to
select, enter a different value in the Tolerance box, and then make
another selection.
10. To feather the selection (to make it blend into the surrounding part of
the picture), click Feather on the Magic Wand options palette, enter the
number of pixels that you want feathered around the edge, and then click
OK
.
11. To select the opposite area, click Invert on the Magic Wand options
palette.