Part of Lesson Plan: Making Selections with Color

Activity Overview / Details

Anti-aliased-Creates a smoother-edged selection.

Contiguous-Selects only adjacent areas using the same colors. Otherwise, all pixels in the entire image using the same colors are selected.

Fuzziness- In the Color Range Command, similar to tolerance, in that the lower the value, the closer in color pixels must be to be selected.

Handles-After select certain commands, the small squares that surround the selection. You drag a handle to arrive at the look you want.

Sample All Layers-Selects colors using data from all the visible layers. Otherwise, the Magic Wand tool selects colors from the active layer only.

Tolerance-Determines the similarity or difference of the pixels selected. Enter a value in pixels, ranging from 0 to 255. A low value selects the few colors very similar to the pixel you click. A higher value selects a broader range of colors.