Magic Wand

[auggybendoggy]

Do I need to do a blood sacrifice in order to make the magic wand remove selection work? I've tried about everything and it simply does nothing. The only thing I can think of is perhaps Corel has designed the software so that I have to take a lamb without defect and put it's blood on the my door frame. Then perhaps in the morning the mask will be complete????

Any help would be appeciateated.

[LeviFiction]

You, need to develop a sense of humor. You also need to tell us what you're doing to try and remove part of a selection because I have no problems with the magic wand tool so I have no idea what you're talking about.

Though, honestly I don't use the magic wand tool. Too imprecise for my tastes.

First of all you need to be selecting inside of a current selection to remove part of it with the magic wand tool. Secondly you need to have it set to Remove or be holding Ctrl when you click on the area you want to remove from the selection. The mode you're using is also important. Does your image have multiple layers? If so are you telling it to select using all layers? If not does the layer you're clicking on actually have the area you want to remove from the selection?

Is the area not selected? It's sometimes hard to tell. That's nothing against you, that's against the marching ants. One way to tell for sure is to ho up to the menu and go Selections->Edit Selection the area that turns red is selected. Everything else is not selected.

There's also the possibility that you're talking about a single area not being deselected when you click on a similar color on the other side of the image. In which case do you have "contiguous" turned on or off? Contiguous means that the pixels are directly connected in some way to each other. Discontiguous would mean that it doesn't care where in the image it matches the pixel you clicked on it'll find it.

Tolerance could be too low.

It could be anything. Give us something to go off of, please.

[jaxman43]

@LeviFiction - If you don't use the magic wand, how do you do your selections?
Larry

[pdxrjt]

You, need to develop a sense of humor. You also need to tell us what you're doing to try and remove part of a selection because I have no problems with the magic wand tool so I have no idea what you're talking about.

Just what I was thinking. I don't have problems with magic wand....but like LeviFiction, I don't use it often.

[LeviFiction]

Jaxman, since I tend to be selecting people or specific objects from complicated backgrounds I either use vectors, the point to point lasso selection tool, or journeyman masking if necessary. They take longer, sometimes needing more refining. But I have that control. Something the wand doesn't give me. Not saying it's not useful, I'm just never in a position where that use is an actual advantage over the other methods.

[teknisyan]

Hello auggybendoggy,

You may want to try reset the workspace by holding down the SHIFT key then double-click on the Paintshop Pro icon, when you received the message below, just click on OK button.

Reset PSPX3.jpg (24.04 KiB) Viewed 4962 times

You may also want to download all the updates by clicking on HELP menu then select CHECK FOR UPDATES..., or download the updates from http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/ ... 9872271743.