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He is interested in people, music, food and writing. You can edit it here and send me a pull request. Have an update or suggestion for this article? I’ve removed my selection by hitting CTRL + X Once you have the background selected you can remove it or fill it as you wish. Click in the areas that are not included until all of the background is selected. Hold shift and you will see the icon change. To select all the background I now use the add to selection option. Tip: If you are not happy with your selection hit Apple + D (CTRL + D on Windows) to remove it and start again. You will see that at a tolerance of 60 it has selected some but not all of the background. I’ve selected the Magic Wand tool using W and clicked into the background. Select your copied layer to begin working on it. This is a good idea so you can recover the image if anything goes wrong. Knocking out the backgroundīefore starting you should copy the Background layer.

Use all layers - this allows the tool to select from all layers.

Contiguous - this selects only areas that are joined together.

Anti-aliased - This defines a smooth edge to the selection.

The number you will need depends of the image but I find 60 is good for general work. 255 will select everything whilst 1 is very precise.

Tolerance - This determines how closely to match colours in the selection.

Intersect with selection - this means that each time you click only areas that overlap with the existing selection will be selected.

Subtract from selection - this means that each time you click your selection will be removed from the existing one on the screen.

Add to selection - this means that each time you click your selection will be added to the existing selection on one the screen.

New selection - this means that each time you click a new selection will be made.

The Magic Wand tool is primarily a selection tool so you will see the same options that you get in the Lasso and Marquee tools:

This is a common task in Photoshop and one that is simple with the Magic Wand tool.

In this example we are going to remove the background of a picture. Select the Magic Wand tool by pressing W. It works by selecting pixels based on settings defined by you. Knocking out the background Sample based selectionĪ little like the Magnetic Lasso tool the Magic Wand does much of the hard work for you.A tool for daily use this example shows how to remove a background quickly and easily.Įstimated reading time: 3 minutes Table of contents Last updated Saturday, Photoshop 101 - The Magic Wand Tool Especially for high contrast images the Magic Wand tool makes selection simple. Photoshop 101 - The Magic Wand Tool | George Ornbo