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9. Change the Fuzziness value to 60 and watch the effect on the dialog box preview.
Changing the Fuzziness value expands (higher numbers) or contracts (lower numbers)
your selection. Be careful, however, since higher fuzziness values also eliminate very fine
lines and details.

Increasing the
Fuzziness value allows
you to select areas of
greater color variation.

10. Choose White Matte in the Selection Preview menu.
By changing the Selection Preview mode, you can more easily determine exactly what is
selected. Using the White Matte preview, anything visible is selected.

You can preview color range selections in the image window as grayscale (areas outside
the selection are shown in shades of gray), against a black matte (unselected areas are
shown in black), against a white matte (unselected areas are shown in white), or using
the default Quick Mask settings. If you choose None in the Selection Preview menu, the
document window displays the normal image.
Note:
Because the dialog box
Eyedropper tool (new preview is so small,
sample eyedropper)
we prefer to rely on
Subtract from Sample the preview in the
document window,
Add to Sample
which is controlled in the
Selection Preview menu
at the bottom of the
Light blue indicates dialog box.
parts of the back-
ground that aren’t
entirely selected.
Depending on where you clicked, your selection might not exactly match what you
see in our screen shot. For now, the important point is to know that the visible areas
indicate the current selection.

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