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August 17, 2021
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P: Photoshop 22.5 - Add to Selection not working in Action

I have an action which starts by using the magic wand to create a selection. I've used it for a few years over multiple versions of Photoshop on Windows.

 

Its now just not working at all, either running the action or double-clicking that step. If I delete the step and manually record the Magic Wand clicking the canvas, the step is added to the action and the selection works as expected.

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Kukurykus
Legend
September 17, 2021

Good workaround. If I knew I can use it I would have been doing it the same for whole month too 😉

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Kukurykus
Legend
September 17, 2021

The right version to fix it, is 22.5.1.

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Legend
September 16, 2021

@Create360 make sure you're on 22.5.1 which just came a day or so ago.

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Create360
Participant
September 16, 2021

found a (stupid) workaround: 'set selction' with wand doesn't work, but 'add to selection' does. so, i recorded the first step of the action to create a 1px x 1px square in the upper left corner, followed by magic wand step.

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shellyrosenberg
Participant
September 16, 2021

My issue was addressed and works well in 22.5.1




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Create360
Participant
September 16, 2021

i have updated to 22.5 and actions that include magic wand still don't work. getting 'no pixels selected'

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Participating Frequently
September 14, 2021

I can confirm that it works.

Now on to the latest redraw issues...

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Kukurykus
Legend
September 14, 2021
shellyrosenberg
Participant
September 14, 2021

Thanks for fixing this but I do not see 22.5.1 listed




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markw61174749
Participant
September 14, 2021

I'm using Javascript to script selections with the Magic Wand. The "contiguous" setting (true/false) has stopped working in the latest version of Photoshop 22.5.0. 'false' selections work, but 'true' selections now fail. Which ever way the tick button for 'Contiguous' is set for the Magic Wand tool in the interface makes no difference when running the script; 'false' always works, but 'true' doesn't. Photoshop 22.4.2 works as expected.

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Kukurykus
Legend
September 14, 2021

Do you mean it only doesn't work when contiguous box is filled while running script or manually as well?

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