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August 17, 2021

P: Photoshop 22.5 - Add to Selection not working in Action

  • August 17, 2021
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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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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    August 23, 2021

    I have this problem as well, but re-recording the steps does not fix the issue.  I've rolled back to the previous version in the meanwhile.  my post: Magic Wand step in Action will not work, "no pixels selected" error

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    LumigraphicsAuthor
    Legend
    August 23, 2021

    Photoshop 22.5 - Add to Selection not working in Action

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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    August 23, 2021

    I have an action with a magic wand selection, followed by an inverse.  When I updated to the newest version of photoshop, those steps in the action would not work, resulting in an error of "no pixels selected".  If i manually used the magic wand, then proceeded with the rest of the action, it was fine.  With the action, the history showed "auto mask" instead of "Magic Wand".  Rolling back to a previous version resolved the issue.  

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    J453
    Legend
    August 20, 2021

    Engineering is looking into this.

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    LumigraphicsAuthor
    Legend
    August 20, 2021

    Adobe? Yes, no, is this reproducible? Two of my most used actions are affected by this and I haven't come up with a workaround.

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    LumigraphicsAuthor
    Legend
    August 18, 2021

    I have actions which use the magic wand tool to select a white background. That action step is now failing to select anything, whether I run the whole action or double-click that step. The wand does work fine, and if I remove that action step and re-record manually using the wand, the background is selected and the step is added.

     

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      DeanUtianCommunity Expert
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      August 18, 2021

      To clarify, did you record an action with using the magic want on a white area but when trying on a different image, it did not select white pixels? If that's the case, the white area in the second image may not be in the same place as the first image so would not select the white area.

       

      Did you try run that step on the same image as when you recorded the selection with the magic wand?

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      LumigraphicsAuthor
      Legend
      August 18, 2021

      The action step doesn't work period. I've used these actions on thousands of files before now, they always worked fine. This is not operator error.

       

      To reproduce:

      1. create a new document with one layer, filled with white

      2. create a new action

      3. record a single step of clicking the magic wand on the canvas, the entire canvas will be selected

      4. undo

      5. run the action

      6. observe that nothing is selected on the canvas

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        FeedbackCommunityMember
        Inspiring
        August 18, 2021

        I have the exact same issue.

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