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Testing edges with the Magic Wand

Testing edges with the Magic Wand - Photoshop Tutorial

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Testing edges with the Magic Wand

I'm still working inside Lips.jpg; this is one of the rare cases where it can't provide you with the progress file so you'll have to have been working along with me to achieve the same results. In this exercise, we're now going to refine our selection here inside the Quick Mask mode. Now I would be taking advantage of the Magic Wand tool, in order to gauge the accuracy of my selection outline. Now the Magic Wand tool, I don't use it on a regular basis to select continuous tone images. I wouldn't have to show you how to do that fundamentals portion. The series just have three years experience with the tool. But the way I use it is to gauge areas of flat color and for that purpose it's a really great tool. Let me show you how that works. I m going to go ahead and select the Magic Wand, either by clicking on the slide or by clicking and choosing the Magic Wand tool from the flyout menu here. And then I am going to change the Tolerance value to zero, like so, and I m going to turn…

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