Selections
The Quick Selection Tool vs Magic Wand: When to Use Which
The Quick Selection Tool and the Magic Wand sit in the same tool slot in Photoshop, but they work in fundamentally different ways. Choosing the right one for the job saves you from fighting with selections that never quite look right. How They Work Magic Wand selects pixels based on color similarity. You click a pixel, and it selects all connected pixels within a tolerance range of that color. It’s a purely mathematical tool — it doesn’t “understand” what’s in the image.