The Magic Wand
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Why were the pixels in the lower gradient not included? The reason has to do with another important option in the Options Bar - Contiguous. With Contiguous selected, as it is by default, Photoshop will only select pixels that fall within the acceptable tone and color range determined by the Tolerance option and are side by side each other in the same area you clicked on.
Any pixels that are within the acceptable Tolerance range but are separated from the area you clicked on by pixels that fall outside the Tolerance range will not be included in the selection. In the case of my gradients, the pixels in the bottom gradient that should otherwise have been included in the selection were ignored because they were cut off from the area I clicked on by the pixels in the red bar which were not within the Tolerance range.
Let's see what happens when I uncheck the Contiguous option. I'll also reset my Tolerance setting to its default value of I'll click again in the center of the upper gradient with the Magic Wand, and this time, with Contiguous unchecked, the pixels in the bottom gradient that fall within the Tolerance range are also selected, even though they're still separated from the area I clicked on by the red bar:.
Up next, we'll look at some additional options for the Magic Wand and a real world example of it in action as we use it to quickly select and replace the sky in a photo! Tolerance and Contiguous are the two options that have the biggest impact on the Magic Wand, but there's a couple of other options worth noting. Since the Magic Wand selects pixels and pixels are square-shaped, our selection edges can sometimes appear harsh and jagged, often referred to as a "stair stepping" effect. Photoshop can smooth out the edges by applying a slight blur to them, a process known as anti-aliasing.
We can turn anti-aliasing for the Magic Wand on and off by checking or unchecking the Anti-alias option in the Options Bar. By default, it's enabled and in most cases you'll want to leave it enabled:. Also by default, when you click on an image with the Magic Wand, it looks for pixels to select only on the layer that's currently active in the Layers panel.
This is usually what we want, but if your document contains multiple layers and you want Photoshop to include all the layers in your selection, select the Sample All Layers option in the Options Bar. It's unchecked by default:. Here's an image I have open in Photoshop. I like the photo in general, but the sky could look more interesting. I think I'll replace the sky with a different one:. Replacing the sky means I'll first need to select it. As I mentioned earlier, the Magic Wand excels at selecting large areas of solid color, and since the sky is clear blue with only a slight variation in the tone, the Magic Wand will make selecting it easy.
With the tool selected and all of its options in the Options Bar set back to their defaults Tolerance 32, Contiguous checked , I'll click somewhere in the top left of the image:. If the sky had been solid blue, the Magic Wand would have had no trouble selecting all of it with that one single click. However, the sky actually transitions from a lighter shade of blue just above the buildings to a darker shade near the top of the photo, and my Tolerance value of 32 wasn't quite high enough to cover that entire range of tonal values, leaving a large area of the sky directly above the buildings out of the selection:.
Since my initial attempt failed to select the entire sky because my Tolerance value was too low, I could try again with a higher Tolerance value, but there's an easier way to fix the problem. As with Photoshop's other selection tools, the Magic Wand has the option to add to existing selections , which means I can keep the selection I've started with and simply add more of the sky to it! To add to a selection, hold down your Shift key and click in the area you need to add.
In my case, with Shift held down, I'll click somewhere inside the sky that wasn't included in the selection initially:. And just like that, Photoshop was able to add the remaining area of the sky to the selection. Two clicks with the Magic Wand was all it needed:. Of course, since the sky is being replaced, what I should have selected in the image was everything below the sky, since that's the area I want to keep.
But drawing a selection outline along the tops of the buildings with one of Photoshop's other selection tools like the Polygonal Lasso Tool or the Magnetic Lasso Tool would have taken more time and effort, while selecting the sky with the Magic Wand was quick and easy. This brings us to a popular and very handy technique to use with the Magic Wand, which is to select the area you don't want first and then invert the selection! To invert the selection, which will select everything that wasn't selected in my case, everything below the sky and deselect everything that was the sky itself , go up to the Select menu at the top of the screen and choose Inverse.
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With the selection now inverted, the sky is no longer selected while everything below it in the image is:. Next, I'll open the image I want to replace the original sky with. I'll switch back over to my original image and I'll click on the Background layer in the Layers panel to select it so that, when I paste the other sky photo into the document, it will appear between my existing two layers:. Everyone loves a blue sky, but sometimes a few clouds can make a bigger impact:.
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Like Photoshop's other selection tools, the trick to using the Magic Wand successfully and avoiding frustration is knowing when to use it and when to try something else. As we've seen in this tutorial, the Magic Wand's biggest strength is its ability to select large areas of pixels that all share the same or similar color and tone, making it perfect for things like selecting and replacing a simple sky in a photo, or for any image where the object you need to select is in front of a solid or similarly colored background.
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