From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals
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Tolerance and other options - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals
Tolerance and other options
In this exercise, I am going to explain how to use Tolerance and the other controls that are available to you in the Options Bar when you're using the Magic Wand tool. All of these features control the behavior of the Magic Wand the next time you use it. So for example if I were to change my Tolerance value from 32 to 80 while I've got a selection outline going here inside my ManlySaw.jpg file, and then press the Enter key or the Return key, I might naturally expect to expand that selection to include more similar colors inside the image, but nothing happens. And that's because it's not a dynamic control, it affects the next time I click, and in fact I'll go ahead and click here below the ManlySaw and I select this time the entire sky except some garbagy stuff up here in the upper right corner including almost all of the saw blade. So I really have expanded that selection outline too far this time. But before I tell you what is the proper tolerance value for this image, let me explain…
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Photoshop versus the real world1m 21s
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Meet the selection tools10m 26s
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Marking the center of an image4m 9s
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Drawing a geometric selection outline4m 45s
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Blurring a selection outline with Feather6m 8s
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Copy and paste versus drag and drop5m 31s
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Creating a graduated selection4m 29s
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Aligning one image with another4m 45s
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Accessing the Move tool on the fly3m 34s
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Invert and Match Colors5m 4s
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Matching colors selectively3m 52s
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Feathering and filling a selection5m 14s
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Dressing up a composition with effects5m 34s
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The incredible image rotation trick2m 18s
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The Magic Wand tool4m 12s
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Tolerance and other options7m 7s
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Grow, Similar, and Inverse5m 39s
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Quick selection and the Magnetic Lasso7m 27s
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Evaluating a selection in Quick Mask8m 52s
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Saving and loading selections6m 14s
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Placing an image with a layer mask3m 22s
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Eliminating edge fringing7m 43s
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