Next, click on the color (in the image), that you want to select. Start the tool by pressing Select - Color Range. Unlike the Magic Wand, which either fully selects or fully ignores the area,Ĭolor range can create partial selections, depending on how much of that color is present in the area. This tool allows us select a specific color from the image. The New mode makes the tool forget all previously specified strokes and start over with an empty hidden layer. The more white and black strokes you specify, the more information the tool has for making a good selection. This layer is used as a guide for the tool: white areas must always be inside the selection, black areas must not be in the selection,Īnd the remaining area will be smartly deduced from this, by analyzing the actual image. When you draw with the Subtract mode, the strokes are drawn using the black color. As you draw strokes with the New or Union mode, the tool draws into that layer with the white color. There is a hidden layer inside the Quick Selection tool. Switch to the Subtract mode in the top menu (or hold the Alt key) and you can remove the unwanted parts in the same way. Sometimes, the tool may go beyond the area, that you want to select, and select much greater part. Into the surrounding area, selecting the related parts (similarly to a Magic Wand). It adds each stroke to a selection, and it also gradually expands it Then, draw strokes over the area, that you want to select. Quick Selection works like a brush, you can choose the brush tip diameter in the top menu. This is probably the most advanced selecting tool, that can really save your time.įor many people, this is the only selection tool they ever use. (larger values produce "wider" selections). There is also a Tolerance parameter in the top menu, which defines how much similar colors you want to select Here you can see the result of clicking on the pixel (marked by the white cross) with the Contiguous mode enabled and disabled. When this option is disabled, the Magic Wand will select all similar pixels from the whole image, even if they are not conencted to the source pixel. it will select the whole area, that has the same color, but not other areas, which are separated from this area). That are connected to the source pixel (i.e. When it is on, the Magic Wand will select only those similar pixels, There is a Contiguous mode option (in the top menu). The pixel under the mouse will be selected, as well as all other pixels, that have a color similar to that pixel. Once you click somewhere with the Magic Wand, Magic wand allows you to select pixels with the same (or similar) color.
There are more advanced tools, that can help us. with the Ellipse Select or a Lasso tool.īut making complex selections with these tools can take a lot of time.
How to use magic wand tool in photoshop for single color how to#
We already know, how to make basic selections "manually", e.g.
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