Magic Wand vs Color Range

yeah ! Thanks a lot Chuck.

Mallokw

Thanks for these explanation Chuck !

To finish, according to what you say, and if I take your same example of 2 people, even if the 2 faces have the same skin tone, the selection will "choose" just the skin of the selected face even if it is the same skin tone as the other face, just because I click at a certain plot in the image ? Is that it or am I lost ?

Thanks again.

Mallokw

If you have a selection before you open color range, it will limit it to within the original selection, but mainly localization just samples within an area of where you click to make a sample. For example, if you have 2 people in your image and click on the face of one, it will attempt to just select the flesh tone that you selected from that first person, and not the other. The selected pixels in that first person do not need to be contiguous to be selected.

You mean that the localized feature is working inside a selection that is already done and thus can select different areas that are not contiguous ?

No, the localized feature is not close to the same as contiguous. 

Thanks for these explanation about the feathering feature of Color Selection tool ! However concerning localized feature of Color Selection, isn't it the same with the contiguous pixel option in the magic Wand tool ?

Regards.

Mallokw

Not sure about the hue vs brightness, but the magic wand tool has no feathering, so you get a hard edge. Color selection uses the fuzziness slider to select more and feather the selection. Plus color selection can use localized to just get colors in the general area that you select.