11 Replies Latest reply: Sep 25, 2009 3:31 PM by John Joslin RSS

    Magic wand not behaving as expected

    talbot Community Member

      I just got CS4 upgrading from 7.0. I am trying to capture my signature to use in Acrobat. Originally, you held the shift key down and clicked the wand to move around 'capturing' the image which I would then invert, copy, open new file and change the color or whatever and save as jpg, gif or png; simple and easy. Now, I don't have to hold the shift key down but it is unselecting things regardless of the size. Following are the steps I took and what happened after clicking one more time and the loss of the selection.

      After a number of clicks I get the outline going and now want to click in the inner part of the loop of the J. Here it is in that state:

      screenshot1.jpg

       

      So then I reduce the wand size to 4px (from 14) and cllick in the upper part and this is what happens:

      screenshot2.jpg

      As you can see, my original selection has been lost.

       

      So, how do I gert that inner part because it is one of many and something I did with ease in 7.0 selected?

      Thanks,