Throw Photoshop's Magic Wand Out the Window!
If you use Photoshop’s Magic Wand tool, stop what you’re doing and switch to Color Range. This outrageously useful command lets you select an image as easily as the Magic Wand, but with more flexibility and much better results.
Color Range is Photoshop’s most successful automated masking function, which you can change on the fly and which gives you excellent organic selections. To say Color Range is good is an understatement. Don’t believe me? Click the image below to watch the high-quality video and you’ll find out.

This article was last modified on January 5, 2023
This article was first published on February 26, 2010
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