Creating pixel-based selections

Corel Painter offers various methods for making pixel-based selections. The Magic Wand tool selects groups of pixels according to color. You can adjust the settings to control the range of colors, and you can also choose to include only adjacent colors (contiguous) or only nonadjacent colors (noncontiguous).

In addition, there are ways to auto-generate pixel-based selections by using various image, clone, and color characteristics. For example, you can create a selection based on the luminance values of a clone.

Pixel-based selections provide 256 levels of protection to the canvas. Each pixel in the selection sets a level of protection for its corresponding color pixel in the RGB image. Opaque areas of the selection provide 100% protection and prevent brushstrokes and effects from marking the canvas. Clear areas of the selection provide no protection and allow brushstrokes and effects to mark the canvas. Brushstrokes and effects are partially applied to areas where the selection is shaded or semitransparent. As a result, you can paint and apply effects with varying levels of intensity within a selection.

You can move pixel-based selections, but you cannot resize or rotate them. To apply transformations to pixel-based selections, convert any pixel-based selections into path-based selections. For more information, see To convert a pixel-based selection to a path-based selection.

To select an area by using the Magic Wand tool

1 .	In the toolbox, click the Magic Wand tool .

You can also
Create a selection with contiguous pixels	On the property bar, click the Contiguous button.
Create a new selection	On the property bar, click the New Selection button and click in the document window.
Add to the current selection	On the property bar, click the Add To Selection button and click the areas you want to add.
Remove an area from the current selection	On the property bar, click the Subtract From Selection button and click the areas you want to add.

The default tolerance for selections is 32. This can be adjusted from 1 to 255.

If you add to the current selection, you add to the range of values that the Magic Wand tool selects rather than create an additional selection with a unique seed color.

You can restrict a selection to a rectangular area by pressing Option + Shift (macOS) or Alt + Shift (Windows), and dragging a bounding rectangle in your image.

You can restore the default settings by clicking the Reset Tool button on the property bar.

Adding to a selection by using the Magic Wand tool

To auto-generate a selection based on image characteristics

1 .	Choose Select Auto Select.

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Current Color — creates a selection of pixels based on the current main color. Before using this option, you can pick a color from the image by using the Dropper tool .

To auto-generate a selection based on clone characteristics

2 .	In the Clone Source panel (Window Clone Source), choose Embedded Image from the Source list box. In the Embed Source Image dialog box, do one of the following:

3 .	Choose Select Auto Select.

To auto-generate a color-based selection

1 .	Choose Select Color Select.

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