magic wand missing

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keith
Jan 29, 2010
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Hi,
Photoshop CS 3. Windows XP Pro. The magic wand tool is nowhere to be found. WTF! How can this be?? I’ve gone through my tools palette 4 or 5 times and also restarted Photoshop. Very weird. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Keith

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Mike Russell
Jan 29, 2010
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:18:20 -0800 (PST), keith wrote:

Hi,
Photoshop CS 3. Windows XP Pro. The magic wand tool is nowhere to be found. WTF! How can this be?? I’ve gone through my tools palette 4 or 5 times and also restarted Photoshop. Very weird. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Keith

Hold down the shift key and press W once or twice and you’ll get the magic want tool.

BTW – if you find yourself dissatisfied with the magic want tool, there are other ways to erase and mask backgrounds without jaggies. —
Mike Russell – http://www.curvemeister.com
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keith
Jan 29, 2010
On Jan 29, 1:19 pm, Mike Russell
wrote:
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:18:20 -0800 (PST), keith wrote:
Hi,
Photoshop CS 3. Windows XP Pro. The magic wand tool is nowhere to be found. WTF! How can this be?? I’ve gone through my tools palette 4 or 5 times and also restarted Photoshop. Very weird. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Keith

Hold down the shift key and press W once or twice and you’ll get the magic want tool.

BTW – if you find yourself dissatisfied with the magic want tool, there are other ways to erase and mask backgrounds without jaggies. —
Mike Russell -http://www.curvemeister.com

Excellent Mike! You are a fountain of information. Very timely too. I had just put the disk into the drive and was about to to run the installer again and thought, I’ll have another quick look at the newsgroup, just in case.
The question remains . . .Why did it disappear in the first place? I’ll just put that down to ‘one of those computer things.’ I know there are other selection alternatives. I’ve just been using some since my wand was AWOL. Seems to be several ways of doing nearly everything in Photoshop – and all Adobe products. But in this instance the wand will be quick & easy.
Thanks much,
Keith
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Mike Russell
Jan 29, 2010
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:49:57 -0800 (PST), keith wrote:

On Jan 29, 1:19 pm, Mike Russell
wrote:
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:18:20 -0800 (PST), keith wrote:
Hi,
Photoshop CS 3. Windows XP Pro. The magic wand tool is nowhere to be found. WTF! How can this be?? I’ve gone through my tools palette 4 or 5 times and also restarted Photoshop. Very weird. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Keith

Hold down the shift key and press W once or twice and you’ll get the magic want tool.

BTW – if you find yourself dissatisfied with the magic want tool, there are other ways to erase and mask backgrounds without jaggies. —
Mike Russell -http://www.curvemeister.com

Excellent Mike! You are a fountain of information. Very timely too. I had just put the disk into the drive and was about to to run the installer again and thought, I’ll have another quick look at the newsgroup, just in case.
The question remains . . .Why did it disappear in the first place? I’ll just put that down to ‘one of those computer things.’ I know there are other selection alternatives. I’ve just been using some since my wand was AWOL. Seems to be several ways of doing nearly everything in Photoshop – and all Adobe products. But in this instance the wand will be quick & easy.
Thanks much,
Keith

I don’t have CS3 installed to check, but my guess is that the magic wand was hiding behind the Quick Selection Tool, which shares the same fly-out. —
Mike Russell – http://www.curvemeister.com
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keith
Jan 30, 2010
On Jan 29, 4:55 pm, Mike Russell
wrote:
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:49:57 -0800 (PST), keith wrote:
On Jan 29, 1:19 pm, Mike Russell
wrote:
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:18:20 -0800 (PST), keith wrote:
Hi,
Photoshop CS 3. Windows XP Pro. The magic wand tool is nowhere to be found. WTF! How can this be?? I’ve gone through my tools palette 4 or 5 times and also restarted Photoshop. Very weird. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Keith

Hold down the shift key and press W once or twice and you’ll get the magic want tool.

BTW – if you find yourself dissatisfied with the magic want tool, there are other ways to erase and mask backgrounds without jaggies. —
Mike Russell -http://www.curvemeister.com

Excellent Mike! You are a fountain of information. Very timely too. I had just put the disk into the drive and was about to to run the installer again and thought, I’ll have another quick look at the newsgroup, just in case.
The question remains . . .Why did it disappear in the first place? I’ll just put that down to ‘one of those computer things.’ I know there are other selection alternatives. I’ve just been using some since my wand was AWOL. Seems to be several ways of doing nearly everything in Photoshop – and all Adobe products. But in this instance the wand will be quick & easy.
Thanks much,
Keith

I don’t have CS3 installed to check, but my guess is that the magic wand was hiding behind the Quick Selection Tool, which shares the same fly-out.. —
Mike Russell -http://www.curvemeister.com

Nope. It just plain wasn’t there. It is normally in the same fly out as the quick selection, but this time it must have been vacationing overseas. I looked 4 or 5 times behind all the fly outs because I thought, surely I must be missing it.
In the past I’ve seen other posters who have messaged that they can’t find a particular tool. I’ve written them off as being either blind or stupid. I’ll have to re-think that now 🙂
Thanks again Mike.
Keith

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