Magic Wand Tool Help

[twins225]

I am trying to make decorative wood grain papers (for a digital scrapbooking kit).
I achieved this last week, but I didn't save my settings and now I can't get it right.
I am trying to select the wood grain texture from the paper, to manipulate with another paper.
Previously, when I used the tool, it worked, but nothing I am trying now will work.
This is the finished product I am trying to achieve. Hope my explanation makes sense.
Anyone have any suggestions?

[LeviFiction]

I'm confused, is this a wallpaper pattern on a top layer with a wood paneling picture on the bottom layer and you used the magic wand tool to select the pattern, and hit delete? Or is the wood grain on top and the wallpaper pattern is what's showing through? What is the process you used? Did you invert the selection before deleting or is what's left everything that wasn't selected? I can see the final result, but I have no idea at what stage you used the magic wand tool. If you can it would also be helpful to see the starting point images you're working with.

I don't suppose you saved it in PSPImage format before exporting to JPG did you? I don't see an edit history in the jpg file so either you have that turned off or it was removed.

With the magic wand tool it's just as much where you click as it is what your settings were. Normally PSP saves your last used settings so that the tool is set up the last way you used it. Since you've been playing around trying to do it again you've clearly overwritten those settings.

If I had to guess, I would assume you used anti-alias, no feather. As you get most of the wood grain remaining I'm assuming Color or RGB or lightness with a high-enough tolerance to grab a lot of the texture. And unless you made a lot of clicks with the selection mode set to "Add" I assume you had "Contiguous" turned off to make it a single click mass selection. Best I can do.

[twins225]

I tried all the settings, to no avail. It's just picking up dots everywhere, none of the grain like it did before.
I'm kicking myself now, for not saving the settings.
Its the regular paper on top, wood paper below.
Magic wand was the first step, used on the wood paper.
Inverted the selection and deleted it from the top layer (regular paper).
I did save a few layered files, so I will search through them tomorrow.
Top Paper:

TMS_STRAWBERRY LEMONADE_PATTERN4.jpg

Bottom Paper:

DDW_213_c3_10.jpg

Final Product:

TMS_STRAWBERRY LEMONADE_WOOD PAPERS_5.jpg

[LeviFiction]

As I said where you click is just as important as the settings. Because you inverted the selection I'm looking to click somewhere near or on the woodgrain, or at least one of the darker browns.

Using the built-in settings of: Match Mode - Color, Tolerance - 12, Contiguous - Off, anti-alias - On.

I clicked on pixel (1805x,1945y) and got this result. Which isn't exact, but it looks like it's getting close. But without knowing where you clicked exactly, all of this will be guess-work and aiming at getting close to what you had before.

[twins225]

Thank you. I will try the settings you suggested later today.

[Jean-Luc]

Use the Layers Properties Blend Range:

Layer Properties.jpg

[twins225]

Use the Layers Properties Blend Range:
Layer Properties.jpg

Awesome!!!! This worked. I never thought of this! THANK YOU!

[twins225]

Using the built-in settings of: Match Mode - Color, Tolerance - 12, Contiguous - Off, anti-alias - On.

I clicked on pixel (1805x,1945y) and got this result. Which isn't exact, but it looks like it's getting close. But without knowing where you clicked exactly, all of this will be guess-work and aiming at getting close to what you had before.

Thank you Levi, your settings worked too!!! YAY!