For example, if your sample size is point sample, the Photoshop will only select the pixels which exactly matches the pixel where you have clicked. If you want to adjust the sample size in previous versions, you need to go to the Eyedropper Tool to adjust the sample size.īasically, sample size tells Photoshop to take an average of the sample. These icons are (left to right): New Selection, Add to Selection, Subtract from Selection and Intersect with Selection. The first four selection icons are the basic ones which I guess you may know it already.
Below is the screenshot of all the settings. I am going to discuss each and every settings one by one. Like all the other Photoshop tools, Magic Wand Tool also comes with it’s own personalized settings. Section 2 – How does the Magic Wand tool in Photoshop works? To select the sky, all you need to do is click on the sky.Īnd Voila, the sky is now selected. In this image, I am going to select the sky in the below image. You may remember that Magic Wand Tool works best only for solid colors. You can also activate it by pressing Shift+W again and again until it is activated. The first thing that we need to do is to grab the Magic Wand Tool from the tool panel. Mountain: Section 1 – The basics of Magic Wand tool in Photoshop We will be talking about this in details. Adobe has made some good improvements in the Magic Wand tool, but it’s still not as good as the Quick Selection tool. It only works best in solid colors and may fail when it comes to the selection of different colors. It works best with solid color backgrounds or the areas with the same solid colors.Īs we all know that nothing is perfect, Magic Wand Tool in Photoshop also comes with its own limitations. As the name suggests, this tool really works like a magic and probably save your more than 50% time which you spend on selecting things.
In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to use the Magic Wand Tool in Photoshop to do your selection. Selection in Photoshop is one of the most important things for all the users but it’s also the most difficult to do for most of the beginners.