Making Quick Selections; Select With The Quick Selection Tool; Select With The Magic Wand Tool - Adobe Photoshop CS6 User Manual

Making quick selections

Select with the Quick Selection tool

Select with the Magic Wand tool

Select with the Quick Selection tool
You can use the Quick Selection tool
outward and automatically finds and follows defined edges in the image.
1. Select the Quick Selection tool
2. In the options bar, click one of the selection options: New, Add To, or Subtract From.
New is the default option if nothing is selected. After making the initial selection, the option changes automatically to Add to.
3. To change the brush tip size, click the Brush pop-up menu in the options bar, and type in a pixel size or drag the slider. Use the Size
pop-up menu options to make the brush tip size sensitive to pen pressure or a stylus wheel.
When creating a selection, press the right bracket (]) to increase the Quick Selection tool brush tip size; press the left bracket ([) to
decrease the brush tip size.
4. Choose Quick Selection options.
Sample All Layers Creates a selection based on all layers instead of just the currently selected layer.
Auto-Enhance Reduces roughness and blockiness in the selection boundary. Auto-Enhance automatically flows the selection further
toward image edges and applies some of the edge refinement you can apply manually in the Refine Edge dialog with the Contrast and
Radius options.
5. Paint inside the part of the image you want to select.
The selection grows as you paint. If updating is slow, continue to drag to allow time to complete work on the selection. As you paint near the
edges of a shape, the selection area extends to follow the contours of the shape edge.
Painting with the Quick Selection tool to extend the selection
If you stop dragging and then click or drag in a nearby area, the selection will grow to include the new area.
To subtract from a selection, click the Subtract from option in the options bar, then drag over the existing selection.
To temporarily switch between add and subtract modes, hold down the Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac) key.
To change the tool cursor, choose Edit > Preferences > Cursors > Painting Cursors (Windows) or Photoshop > Preferences > Cursors >
Painting Cursors (Mac OS). Normal Brush Tip displays the standard Quick Selection cursor with a plus or minus sign to show the
selection mode.
6. (Optional) Click Refine Edge to further adjust the selection boundary. See
Select with the Magic Wand tool
The Magic Wand tool lets you select a consistently colored area (for example, a red flower) without having to trace its outline. You specify the
selected color range, or tolerance, relative to the original color you click.
You cannot use the Magic Wand tool on an image in Bitmap mode or on 32-bits-per-channel images.
1. Select the Magic Wand tool
to quickly "paint" a selection using an adjustable round brush tip. As you drag, the selection expands
. (If the tool isn't visible, hold down the Magic Wand tool
. (If the tool isn't visible, access it by holding down the Quick Selection tool
.)
Refine selection edges.
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