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Hi, I'm using the wand tool to select the color of a hand. I then right click on the shadow and click subtract from selection but it says the pixels are more than 50% selected. the selection edges will not be visible.. What am I doing wrong?
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Please post screemshots including the Options Bar, Layers Panel, Channels Panel, …
What are the Tool’s settings, Tolerance in particular?
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Hi Mindy,
Welcome to the Adobe Community!
Could you please check if the Feather option is set too high, type in “0” in the feather input box and try again!
Regards,
Sahil
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I have tried different tolerance values but that didn't seem to help. here is a screenshot.
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Check "sample all layers".
You're selecting on the wrong layer, one that doesn't actually contain the pixels you're targeting.
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Hello, as an alternative to the excellent suggestions involving the magic wand, you can also try to use the opacity of the layers to create your selection: Ctrl+ click the layer thumbnail of the hand, then Ctrl-+Alg click (to substract) the layer thimbnail of the shadows.
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I have the same issue. I have been using photoshop for 10 years and only recently have I started seeing this. It makes absolutely no sense and it's a poor effort on Adobe's part to explain wtf is happening.