Selecting Areas by Their Color
So, would you select an entire solid-blue sky using the Rectangular Marquee tool? You probably wouldn’t. Oh, you might use a combination of the Lasso and Rectangular Marquee tools, but even then it could be somewhat of a nightmare (depending on the photo). That’s where the Magic Wand tool comes in. It selects by ranges of color, so instead of clicking-and-dragging to make a selection, you click once and the Magic Wand selects things in your photo that are fairly similar in color to the area you clicked on. The Magic Wand tool is pretty amazing by itself, but you can make it work even better.
Step One:
Open a photo that has a solid-color area that you want to select (in this case, it’s the orange part of her dress). ...
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