you have just one level of undo inside the Color Range dia-
log box. Use it wisely. And immediately.- Change the Fuzziness value. Like the magic wand’s Tolerance
value you saw in Lesson 3, the Fuzziness value spreads the selec-
tion across a range of luminance levels that neighbor the base
color. Lowering the value contracts the selection; raising the
value expands the selection. Change the Fuzziness value to 60.
Fuzziness improves on Tolerance in two important ways. First,
whereas the static Tolerance value modifies the next selection,
the dynamic Fuzziness value changes the selection in progress.
Second, the magic wand selects all colors that fall inside the
Tolerance range to the same degree, but Color Range gradu-
ally fades the selection over the course of the Fuzziness range.
As a result, Fuzziness produces gradual, organic transitions. - Check your mask in the image window. The mask preview
in the Color Range dialog box is helpful, but its dinky size
makes it hard to accurately gauge a selection. To better judge
the quality of your work, choose Grayscale from the Selection
Preview pop-up menu, as in Figure 10-10. Photoshop fills the
image window with the mask preview, permitting you to zoom
in (Ctrl+ on the PC or �- on the Mac) and see every little
detail of your prospective selection.
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Shift-clicking produces a different effect than
raising the Fuzziness value. When you Shift-
click, you increase the number of colors that are
fully selected (white in the mask). In contrast,
the Fuzziness value defines how many pixels are
partially selected (gray in the mask).Figure 10-10.To see the mask preview and image at the same
time, click the Image radio button directly under
the preview. The preview box switches from a
thumbnail of the mask to a thumbnail of the full-
color image (again, see Figure 10-10).Using the Color Range Command 345