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4. Click anywhere in the blue area of the image.

Marching ants
indicate the
selection area.

Fine areas of the feather
can’t be distinguished by
the marching ants, so
you don’t know if they’re
selected or not.

Blue areas outside
the tool’s tolerance
are unselected.

5. Choose Select>Deselect to turn off the current selection.
Although you could keep adding to the selection with the Magic Wand tool, the
marching ants can’t really show the fine detail, and they don’t show shades of gray. Note:
There’s a better way to isolate the feather from its blue background. Press Command/
Control-D to turn off the
6. Choose Select>Color Range. current selection.

7. Make sure the Localized Color Clusters option is unchecked.
This option can be used to select specific areas of a selected color. When this option is
checked, the Range slider defines how far away (in physical distance) a color from the
point you click can be located and still be included in the selection.

8. At the bottom of the dialog box, choose None in the Selection Preview menu.

The options here are the same as those in the Refine Edge dialog box.

9. Set the Fuzziness value to 24 and click anywhere in the blue area around the
feather image (in the document window).
Fuzziness is similar to the Tolerance setting for the Magic Wand tool. Higher Fuzziness
values allow you to select more variation from the color you click.

The low Fuzziness
value doesn’t select
a large enough
range of blues.

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