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Tolerance and other options

Tolerance and other options - Photoshop Tutorial

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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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