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The Magic Wand Tool, known simply as the Magic Wand, is one of the oldest selection tools in Photoshop. Unlike other selection tools that select pixels in an image based on shapes or by detecting object edges, the Magic Wand selects pixels based on tone and color. Many people tend to get frustrated with the Magic Wand giving it the unfortunate nickname "tragic wand" because it can sometimes seem like it's impossible to control which pixels the tool selects.

In this tutorial, we're going to look beyond the magic, discover how the wand really works, and learn to recognize the situations that this ancient but still extremely useful selection tool was designed for.
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Selecting The Magic Wand

If you're using Photoshop CS2 or earlier, you can select the Magic Wand simply by clicking on its icon in the Tools palette. In Photoshop CS3, Adobe introduced the Quick Selection Tool and nested it in with the Magic Wand, so if you're using CS3 or later I'm using Photoshop CS5 here, you'll need to click on the Quick Selection Tool in the Tools panel and keep your mouse button held down for a second or two until a fly-out menu appears. Select the Magic Wand from the menu:
The Magic Wand Tool in Photoshop. Image • 2010 Photoshop Essentials.com
The Magic Wand is nested behind the Quick Selection Tool in Photoshop CS3 and later.
The "Magic" Behind The Wand

Before we look at a real world example of the Magic Wand in action, let's see how the tool works and how there's really nothing magical about it. Here's a simple image I've created showing a black to white gradient separated by a solid red horizontal bar through its center:
A black to white gradient separated by a red horizontal bar. Image • 2010 Photoshop Essentials.com
A simple gradient divided by a red bar, but you knew that already.

As I mentioned, Photoshop's Magic Wand selects pixels based on tone and color. When we click on an area in the image with the tool, Photoshop looks at the tone and color of the area we clicked on and selects pixels that share the same color and brightness values. This makes the Magic Wand exceptional at selecting large areas of solid color.

For example, let's say I want to select the horizontal red bar. All I need to do is click anywhere on the red bar with the Magic Wand. Photoshop will see that I've clicked on an area of red and will instantly select every pixel in the image that shares that same shade of red, effectively selecting the red bar for me just by clicking on it:
The Magic Wand Tool easily selected the red bar. Image • 2010 Photoshop Essentials.com
One click with the Magic Wand is all it took to select the entire red bar.
Tolerance

Selecting the solid colored red bar was easy enough, since there were no other pixels in the image that shared the same shade of red, but let's see what happens if I click with the Magic Wand on one of the gradients. I'll click on an area of middle gray in the center of the gradient above the red bar:
Clicking on middle gray with the Magic Wand Tool in Photoshop. Image • 2010 Photoshop Essentials.com
The selected area after clicking in the middle of the upper gradient.


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This time, Photoshop selected an entire range of brightness values rather than limiting itself to pixels that were exactly the same tone and color as the middle gray area I clicked on. Why is that? To find the answer, we need to look up in the Options Bar along the top of the screen. More specifically, we need to look at the Tolerance value:
The Magic Wand Tolerance option in the Options Bar in Photoshop. Image • 2010 Photoshop Essentials.com
The Magic Wand's Tolerance option.

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