How to select without a stroke

[Fraglessina]

Hi! I've drawn something with brush (closed shape). I want to select it with magic wand (outside of the shape and outside of the stroke), but Photoshop selects also a part inside this shape with pencil. I don't want this to happen. I tried to diselect the area inside the shape with an alt, but it doesn't work. I know magic wand choses all things with the same color, but I saw in the tutorial that a person was doing the same and only outside of the similar shape was selected so it has to be possible somehow, but it wasn't described in the tutorial...

I want to achieve it, because later I want to invert the selection to be able to paint this shape inside with bucket tool or gradient tool. I also attached an example in screenshot. Do you have any ideas how to solve it and will it work with filling this shape? Thank you in advance

[Jeff Arola · Accepted solution]

Check Contiguous before using the Magic Wand Tool.

[Fraglessina]

Thank you!

[Bojan Živković · Accepted solution]

If you have painted stroke on separate layer with transparency around stroke use Ctrl + click on layers thumbnail to select content on layer.

[Fraglessina]

Thank you!