The Select by Color tool is designed to select areas of an image based on color similarity. It works a lot like the Fuzzy Select tool (“Magic Wand”). The main difference between them is that the Magic Wand selects contiguous regions, with all parts connected to the starting point by paths containing no large gaps; while the Select by Color tool selects all pixels that are sufficiently similar in color to the pixel you click on, regardless of where they are located. Also, clicking and dragging in the image has no effect on the Select by Color tool.
The Select By Color Tool can be activated from an image
menu as
;
or from the keyboard using the shortcut Shift
-Ctrl-C
The select by color tool does not have any special key modifiers, only the ones that affect all selection tools in the same way. See Selection Tools for help with these.
You can find the Magic Wand options by double-clicking on the
icon in the Toolbox.
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See Selection Tools for help with options that are common to all these tools. Only options that are specific to the Rectangle Select tool are explained here. |
All these options work exactly the same way, they were described for the rectangular selection already. See for Section 2.5.3, “ Options ” details.
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Regarding moving selection, this tool doesn't work like others: when selection by color is created, you can move it only if you select another selection tool... |