From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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The Magic Wand and the Tolerance value - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
The Magic Wand and the Tolerance value
All right, so I went ahead and made a few additional modifications to that layer Mask using a Smudge tool, and then I went ahead and saved my progress as Frog with one red foot.psd. And I forgot to mention up here at the top of the Layers panel you'll find a group called Quick Select. If you turn it on, you'll see all of those tricks that work along with the Quick Selection tool. You can make the brush larger by pressing ], you can make it smaller by pressing [ key, and you can delete from a selection by pressing the Alt or Option key. In this exercise we're going to transition to the Magic Wand. Now, the Wand gets a fair amount of abuse heaped at it by a lot of Photoshop users, and not without reason, it can disappoint. But it has got some great underlying technology and it's important to understand that technology to really come to terms with masking inside Photoshop. Also, it's an extremely predictable tool, much more predictable on this behavior than the Quick Selection tool. And…
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The marquee tools6m 31s
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The single-pixel tools (plus tool tricks)6m 48s
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Turning a destructive edit into a layer5m 34s
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Making shapes of specific sizes7m 7s
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The lasso tools5m 49s
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Working with the Magnetic Lasso tool7m 19s
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The Quick Selection tool8m 13s
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Combining Quick Selection and Smudge4m 52s
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The Magic Wand and the Tolerance value6m 55s
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Contiguous and Anti-aliased selections6m 58s
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Making a good selection with the Magic Wand6m 34s
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Selecting and replacing a background6m 55s
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Resolving edges with layer effects7m 52s
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Adding lines of brilliant gold type7m 28s
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The seven selection soldiers52s
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