Magic Wand/QuickSelection

When I have a backgound selected with the Magic Wand Tool or the Quick Selection Tool and I try to delete it, instead of getting the white and gray checkered background, it brings up a "Fill" splash screen, why? I'm just trying to make an image transparent so it can be moved from one image to another.

What version of photoshop and os?
On windows cs5 if your image is not flattened the delete key should clear (cut) the pixels.
If the image is flattened then shift+delete fills the selection with background color.
What keyboard shortcut are you using?
If you just have a flattened background layer then it needs to be a regular layer before you can delete the pixels to transparency.
Double click on the background layer in the layers panel to convert to a regular layer.

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How to do a magic wand tool like photoshop with java?

in a JPanel,a bufferedImage with a great many colors show in it.
now,i want to select a region with same color use a magic wand tool ,just like photoshop,how to do it?
Thanks.

maybe it is not a feasible way!
i have loading a image size of 150*50,
when i use getPixelColor() method as follow,it used almost 40 seconds to end it.it get correct info of every pixels,but too slow. say nothing of analysis the pixels and catch a selection.
//*******the getPixelColor() method**********//
public String getPixelColor(BufferedImage bimg){
String info=new String();
for(int i=0;i<bimg.getWidth();i++)
for(int j=0;j<bimg.getHeight();j++){
int rgb=bimg.getRGB(i,j);
int red=(rgb>>24)&0xff;
int green=(rgb>>16)&0xff;
int blue=(rgb>>8)&0xff;
info=info+"R:"+red+" G:"+green+" B:"+blue+" X:"+i+" Y:"+j+"\n";
return info;
//****end *****//
then invoke method:
System.out.println(getPixelColor(myimg));

How to use Magic Wand to select in Active Artboard only - CS5

I've run into a problem that I would think already has a solution. I have a layout with 7 artboards, each a variation on a logo design. I want to select a specific color, but only in the active artboard. The Magic Wand would seem to be the right choice, but I see no way of specifying this. Every attempt I make, the color is selected in every artboard that it exists. I know that Select All can narrow its scope to the active artboard by adding the option key to the command but see no equivalent for the Magic Wand. Am I missing something or is Illustrator missing the ability?

Use locking or hiding to make you selection.
Draw a frame around the elements on one artbaord
Select >> Inverse
Object >> Lock
(use your magic wand and make your change)
Object unlock all

Mine is i-phone 4 16G. Feel so sorry upgraded to IOS 7.0.4 which slow down my phone dramatically and less responsive with the touch screen. And in times it frozen on me, the worst. Anyone has the magic wand to downgrade the IOS back to 5 o 6...

Mine is i-phone 4 16G. Feel so sorry upgraded to IOS 7.0.4 which slow down my phone dramatically and less responsive with the touch screen. And in times it frozen on me, the worst. Anyone has the magic wand to downgrade the IOS back to 5 o 6...

There is no way to downgrade to a different iOS. Apple does not support downgrading. See this link regarding speeding up the iPhone 4. http://osxdaily.com/2013/09/23/ios-7-slow-speed-it-up/

Cannot find the Quick Selection Tool (previously paired with the magic wand tool) on Illustrator CC (newest version installed on October 14, 2014)

I have just installed a new version of Illustrator CC and CS6 on October 14, 2014 and I couldn't find the Quick Selection Tool on this version, previously this tool is located with the magic wand tool

I don't remember a quick selection tool in Illustrator. Are you sure this was in Illustrator?

Is the magic wand tool the best tool for cutting out a person's head?

Need advice! The picture is of a girl with her hair blowing in the wind, so I'm not sure about using the magic wand tool.

I guess we should ask what version of Photoshop the OP is using.
One could arge that the OP should have provided that information by themselves and, if not, kind of deserves potentially being confused by having functionality presented that may not be part of their set-up …
Edit: But in all fairness I suspect I may have omitted such information myself when I first started asking questions on this Forum.
Not to mention that it seems somewhat remarkable howt many people seem to prefer talking about specific images to simply posting them (or lores or section of them) – which would make assessing the tasks in question often a lot easier.

How to shift selection of magic wand tool by 2 pixels to take the edges off?

Hello,
I'm trying to make a selection with the magic wand tool and shift the selection edges by a pixel or two, but the 'refine edge' button doesn't seem to do anything. I want to cut a pixel off all the outer edge of an image I have cut out of another picture. Any help would be great thank you.

Depending on whether you have selected the image or the background, use Select > Modify > Expand Selection, or Select > Modify > Contract Selection

How to unselect magic wand tool to select another area?

This is so silly but it is driving me nuts. I used to be able to select an area with the Magic Wand tool and then when I was done, click on something else and it would "deselect." But now it doesn't do that anymore. Did I change a setting somehow by accident or did they do an update that changed that? I hate having to do Ctrl D to deselect it when I used to just click on something else.

Thanks for your help. I actually checked on the icons where you mentioned and the one I wanted was the "new selection box" I had "add to selection" checked and so it wouldn't unselect when I went to new area. So your answers helped! Thanks so much.

Magic Wand won't select CS5.5 OSX

Was working on a file that is very intricate, going back and forth with shortcuts from the wand (W) to the eyedropper (I) and I must of hit something because now my magic wand won't select any of the fine details in my file, when I click it selects the whole artboard, no matter what layer I have selected.
Restarted and trashed pref with no help. Anyone have any ideas why this is happening?
I am on OSX

adobekilledourindustry wrote:
Solved my own problem. In all my shortcutting madness I must of hit "Q" and the file went into Quick Mask mode, which made selections non existent. Took quick mask off and now its working like it should.
In old versions this used to turn your screen pink. Not sure why Adobe thought it would be smart to take that feature out, but thank you Adobe, I just wasted an hour of my life trying to figure out WTF happened.....
I see your point. It makes sense that the whole image should be overlayed with ruby in QM mode when nothing at all is selected. (And if the preference to invert the behaviour is enabled, the whole image should be overlayed when all is selected.) It fails in CS6 on OS X 10.6.8. Please repair this, Adobe.

Question about the wireless keyboard/trackpad/magic wand combo

Hello, I am currently using the wired keyboard along with a third-party wired mouse and was thinking of upgrading to the wireless keyboard, magic trackpad, and attaching the two with Twelvesouth's magic wand. Now after watching some reviews I notice you need to press the power button on the right side of the bar for each device - how does that work when the devices are going to be attached together all the time, essentially blocking off the keyboard's power button (right-hand user)?

Will MagicWand block the power button on my Wireless Keyboard or Trackpad?
Depending on which side you place your Magic Trackpad, you may block access to the power button on your keyboard or trackpad, but that’s okay. Apple’s smart hardware automatically puts itself to sleep when not in use and wakes up just as quickly when you need to use it. There’s no need to power down your keyboard or trackpad. They take their own power naps.
From http://www.twelvesouth.com/product/magicwand

Magic Wand Selection Tool Fails to Operate on Precise Pixel Color

I had an interesting thing happen with Photoshop CS5... My Magic Wand tool got to where it wasn't selecting pixel colors based on the one under the tip of the tool when clicked. It was selecting what seemed like similar colors, but its operation wasn't really predictable.
It turns out that in a prior unrelated operation (days ago) I had changed the color picker to look at a very large number of pixels when sampling.
Having chosen the above, the setting was sticky and modal (meaning it subsequently affected samples taken from then on by a variety of tools).
I didn't think that this should affect subsequent samples taken with the Magic Wand tool. I'm not sure this has always been the case, but it doesn't seem as though it should work this way.
Notably I don't see any way, while the Magic Wand tool is active, that the above sample size can be changed. Nor did Resetting the Magic Wand tool correct the situation.
Should the previously selected color picker sample size actually affect the Magic Wand tool, or is this a case where someone at Adobe consolidated the pixel sampling logic a bit too aggressively?
If the latter, here's an adage to post in the halls of Adobe Engineering: "Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler."
-Noel

Hm, appears to be an old issue: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3226358
What I can't fathom is that it's never bitten me before. I do tend to leave the eyedropper on 1 x 1 pixels, but I occasionally do sample larger regions.
-Noel

What is wrong with my magic wand tool?

I just started loading up photoshop to crop a picture and my magic wand tool has gone all funny. i don't know why but instead of cropping all the white back ground it does this http://imgur.com/oDTxXyK
someone please help me!

Look at the tool options. You set the tolerance to 200, so it's going to select just about everything...
Also, "crop" is not the right word there. I think you meant "select".

Coloring issues with magic wand tool and paint bucket tool, leaves uncolored areas near drawn lines

Photoshop CS6 doesn't color properly. Whetever I use brush tool or elliptical marquee tool to do the lines (with brush tool I use Hard Round, not soft), it doesn't color the whole area when i fill them with color. This happens with both magic wand tool AND paint bucket tool, there is always a small uncolored area near the lines. I have tolerance on 30, and anti-alias, contiguous and sample all layers boxes checked. (this setting worked on my old CS3) I have tried tolerance from 0 to 100, no difference. I have also tried unchecking the boxes I just mentioned, still no difference. I hope there is a solution for this, because it is tedious to always go to the Select - Modify - Expand every time I need to color some area. So how do I fix this problem? I use seperate layers for lines and colors, like I have always done with other Photoshop versions. Even in school where they have CS5 those normal settings work.

Hello Chris,
I don't think this is a "user error". I think Adobe should be able to program a state of the art paint bucket, which is capable to get this done right.
Other applications are able to get this done right.
Please don't fall into a programmer's ignorance ("this is done right by definition") but listen to us artists and improve this unintuitive behavior. Add something like "ignore transparent pixels", because this doesn't even work if you draw on an empty layer.
Thank you!

Magic wand no right click (pc) menu

magic wand tool no longer has the right click (pc) sub menu, i have to change to the quick selection tool in order to acess the sub menu to deselect or layer via copy etc? is anyone else having the same issue?

Did you upgrade to Ps CC 14.2? I can confirm that the right click context menu does not appear with the magic wand tool on Windows 7 64-bit with the latest upgrade. There may be other surprises.
Another posting here also complains about right clicks missing context menus. More confirmed right click context menu issues on Windows here.
(Advice to the wise and wary: never be the first to upgrade; let others find the bugs.)

I am new to Photoshop CC. I am trying to use the magic wand to highlight a dull sky, and it is just making a weird selection that has nothing to do with my photo

I am trying to use the Magic Wand to highlight a dull sky so that I can add something more interesting.
When I try to isolate this area, the magic wand seems to just make a random selection throughout my photo.
I have anit-alias on, and my tolerance is at 5.

First, is the layer containing the photo of the sky selected? That might help.
But there are probably better ways to make selections than the magic wand, depending on the value ranges in the sky you wish to select.
Try Color Range, Quick Mask, or manual selections using the Polygon Lasso Tool, or combinations of all of the above.
You can also paint your selection on an additional layer (using brushes), and convert the painted area to a selection, make a channel of that selection, and refine manually.

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