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Tapping this button on your iPhone 5 will toggle HDR mode on…. Why is iPhone Photography so popular? Photographers have a saying:…. The kiddies are all set with their class lists…. Hello RAW shooters everywhere! Download AfterShot…. In my…. Course Menu. How to Use the Magic Wand Selection Tool With the Magic Wand selection tool, you can select an object or area in your images based on the color or brightness — for example, a pink rose surrounded by green leaves, or a dark area in an otherwise bright image.
Click on any of the images below to view full-size. Click on the Window menu and ensure Tabbed Documents has a checkmark beside it. Understanding the Match Modes The Magic Wand allows you to make a comprehensive selection with just one click, based on Match mode options. Notice a small portion of the flower has been selected. You will see that a much larger portion of the flower has been selected, along with a bit of the background. Set the Tolerance value to 20 and click on the light-yellow portion of the flower.
Notice that some portions of the flower have been selected. You will see that almost all of the flower has been selected, along with areas of the background. Tolerance As you have seen with the previous examples, the Tolerance value determines how closely the selected pixels match the pixel you first clicked on the image. Feather The Feather setting softens the edges of a selection by specifying a fade width, anywhere from 0 to pixels.
Set the Tolerance value to 70 and the Feather value to 20 ; Contiguous is checked. With the Magic Wand tool, click on the same yellow part of the flower Holding down the Shift key, click on any missed areas of the flower to add them to the selection, like the center red parts. If you inadvertently select areas outside the flower, hold down the Ctrl key and click on these parts to subtract them from the selection.
Notice how the selection marquee has expanded with the higher Feather value. Use all layers This setting is a check box to the right of the Tolerance setting. Contiguous When you enable the Contiguous setting, the Magic Wand selects only pixels that connect to the pixel you click.
Try making a few selections with Contiguous on and off to see the difference. Anti-alias When you enable the Anti-alias option, it will produce a smooth-edged selection by partially filling in pixels along the edge, making them semitransparent. Adjusting a Selection It can be difficult at first to get a perfect selection with the Magic Wand.
Make sure you have the Magic Wand tool activated and have deselected the previous selection you created. Click on the same light-yellow area of the flower to make your preliminary selection. Hold down the Shift key and click on missed areas to add them to the selection, until you have most of the flower selected. From the three radio button choices, choose Remove Specks and Holes In the Square area smaller than setting, set it to x pixels The After window in the Preview area above will update, and you will see that small gaps in the center of the selection have now been filled in.
How to Select Hair Making a selection that includes hair can be challenging, but you will find that the Magic Wand is a great tool to use for this. If you are using PaintShop Pro or higher, you can also use the Refine brush to modify and perfect your selections. To learn more, watch the tutorial Using the Refine Brush. Download Your Free Trial. Related Tutorials. Introduction to Selection Tools. It was a awesome help. Looking forward to trying the macro mentioned by Rohan.
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Click the Magic Wand tool, and then click inside the area you want to mask. Hold down Shift, and click again to add to your mask. Click the Fill tool, and then click inside the masked area. Pick tools. The Pick tool lets you select, size, skew, and rotate objects. The Freehand pick tool lets you select objects by using a freehand selection marquee. The Free transform tool lets you transform an object by using the Free rotation, Free angle reflection, Free scale, and Free skew tools.
Shape edit tools. Use the Crop tool to crop and straighten photos in Photoshop. The Crop tool is non-destructive, and you can choose to retain the cropped pixels to optimize the crop boundaries later.
The Crop tool also provides intuitive methods to straighten a photo while cropping. Open the file in CorelDraw X4 or later. In the Replace Wizard dialog box select Replace a color and click Next.
The next step is to choose the color you are going to find and change it. Select the Eyedropper tool near the bottom of the color palette menu.
CorelDRAW lets you draw rectangles and squares. You can draw a rectangle or square by dragging diagonally with the Rectangle tool or by specifying the width and height with the 3-point rectangle tool.
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