#60 Photoshop Tips: Getting More Control Over the Magic Wand
Posted on 9:01 PM by Daniy
By default, the Eyedropper’s tool’s Sample Size option in the Options Bar is set to "Point Sample", which comes into play if you’re using it to read values for color correction. But for now, it’s important to know that the Sample Size option chosen for the Eyedropper tool actually affects how the Magic Wand tool makes its selection (the two have an undocumented relationship).If you increase the Eyedropper’s Sample Size to 3 by 3 or 3 by 5 Average, the Magic Wand will select an average of a much larger of pixels in the sample area. This is important to know, because with one of those two other Sample Sizes chosen, if you were set to the Magic Wand Tolerance to zero, it wouldn’t just select all of the pixels that match any of the pixels in the sample.
The next time your Magic Wand isn’t behaving the way it used to, check and see if you have changed the Eyedropper tool Sample Size.
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At February 9, 2008 at 10:51 PM,
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By default, the Eyedropper’s tool’s Sample Size option in the Options Bar is set to "Point Sample", which comes into play if you’re using it to read values for color correction. But for now, it’s important to know that the Sample Size option chosen for the Eyedropper tool
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