Magic wand tool does nothing

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March 23, 2020
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Hi

I am using the latest Photoshop and I am trying to use the magic wand tool. It selects but when I press delete it offers me a range of things because it seems to thing I want to use Fill. What happened to delete? Somehow it is also not doing anything in a completely different way after I have put in a few layers. No matter what layer I have selected, the wand performs a selection and then has no fundtionality at all. Still won't delete or anything else.

Thanks

Melvyn

How to

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Omdaa

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Solution is : Unlock the background layer!

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

You are trying to delete a selection of the background layer. The background layer does not support transparency, so that is why Fill comes up.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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melvynw31626612Author

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I'm pretty sure I've done this before on many occassions in previous versions.

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Feel free to install one of the obsolete Photoshop CC versions and try …

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melvynw31626612Author

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The image I have uploaded seems to be really small despite me uploading it on the largest setting. Is this normal?

JJMack

Community Expert

This site resizes image that you post down in size. Make screen captures unreadable. That is why I post part of screen captures when I can fit what I want to show on part of my display.

If you delete a selection on a background layer the area need to be filled with a color I would think Photoshop would use the current background swatch color. It seem like your Photoshop is switching to fill to give you the opportunity to pick the color or choose content aware fill or pattern fill.

If you unlock the background layer (convert to a normal layer) delete will work.

JJMack

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melvynw31626612Author

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OK. Thanks. I will remember that in future. Weird that a company specialising in high quality image manipulation makes it as diffiult as possible to upload a decent image.

Thank you for your help.