Hi ,
Do you know what the Magic Wand tool’s Tolerance setting does?
Tolerance is important. It tells Photoshop how many shades of a certain color you want to select. It can make your selection process with the Magic Wand tool frustratingly slow or fantastically fast.
Here’s a quick walk through of how Tolerance works.
I’m wanting to select the blue stripe from this small piece of paper. Notice that the blue has many different shades that make up its texture.
Here’s what I did:
- Get the Magic Wand tool.
- In the Tool Options, click on the New Selection icon. Uncheck Sample All Layers and Contiguous, but check Anti-alias.
Then, I set the Tolerance to 2 and clicked on a blue pixel (as indicated by the red arrow below). Because of the very low tolerance setting, only a few shades of blue were selected.
Next, I raised the Tolerance of the Magic Wand tool to 32 and clicked again. As shown below, the higher tolerance setting selected a lot more shades of blue, but still not all of them. The lighter shades (as indicated by the red box) were still not selected.
Finally, I raised the Tolerance to 60 and clicked again. That setting resulted in all the blue being selected (see the image below). It was high enough to select all the shades of blue, but low enough to not select the white pixels.
Hopefully that quick illustration helped to clear up any tolerance confusion you might have. Make sure to check out the free tutorial below that utilizes the Magic Wand tool.
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