Which tool selects an area of an image using color similarity?

Which tool selects an area of an image using color similarity?

• A. Quick Selection Tool
• B. Lasso Tool
• C. The Magic Wand Tool
• D. Brush Tool

Answer: (C)

Color similarity-based selection is used to pick parts of an image that look alike in color. The tool designed for this is the Magic Wand Tool: you click a point, and it selects neighboring pixels whose color falls within a defined tolerance relative to the color you clicked. Turning up the tolerance makes the selection include more color variation, while lowering it tightens the match to a smaller area. You can also choose whether to limit the selection to contiguous pixels or include all pixels in the image that match the color by toggling Contiguous. Other tools either require manual outlining (Lasso), draw with a brush (Brush), or follow edges automatically as you paint (Quick Selection), but they do not specialize in selecting an area purely by color similarity in the same straightforward way as the Magic Wand.

Color similarity-based selection is used to pick parts of an image that look alike in color. The tool designed for this is the Magic Wand Tool: you click a point, and it selects neighboring pixels whose color falls within a defined tolerance relative to the color you clicked. Turning up the tolerance makes the selection include more color variation, while lowering it tightens the match to a smaller area. You can also choose whether to limit the selection to contiguous pixels or include all pixels in the image that match the color by toggling Contiguous. Other tools either require manual outlining (Lasso), draw with a brush (Brush), or follow edges automatically as you paint (Quick Selection), but they do not specialize in selecting an area purely by color similarity in the same straightforward way as the Magic Wand.