Magic Wand And Hat

[Rachelle Shriver]

Butthrough it all, there are beloved constants people trust NOT to change. Happily, this includes the historic pleasure of the Magic Wand. In fact, for over 50 years very little about it has changed. As a result, its familiar shape and legendary power have made Magic Wand a cultural icon.

Far more than the first-ever massage wand, Magic Wand is representative of individuality, of pleasure, and of power. Revered by millions, it transcends planes of culture and gender. Its impact is so great that Time Magazine included it on its list of The Most Influential Gadgets of All Time.

Hey, I am trying to make a mesh for a site like I normally do using contour lines and adding them to a mesh with the magic wand tool using spacebar, however on both archicad 26 and 27 I am not able to use the magic wand tool. I run MacOS with apple M2 chip and currently with Sonoma 14.3.

Can you give a specific example when it does not work for you? I tried it with Lines, Circles, Polylines, Splines, both when they are inside the Mesh polygon or when they overlap its boundary, and it works in all cases.

Hello Forum,

I'm currently trying to select area regions in a photo with the Magic Wand aka Flood Select tool, as I've done about 1 million times in paint.net.

Can it be that in Affinity Photo you have to set the tolerance of that tool in advance, and that you can't adjust it afterwards in order to increase or decrease the size of the captured area?

I can't believe that the Magic Wand tool in Affinity Photo would be so much inferior to the one in paint.net.

Pixels added to a selection are determined by the color of the pixel or adjacent pixels under the tool when you click or drag across the page, respectively. The dragging operation controls the selection tolerance, i.e. how much the selection will grow to encompass pixels of similar color values under the cursor.

I am not sure if this will work for you but I find if I set the tolerance to a low value then click and drag the tolerance will increase or decrease. Seems a bit flakey but it does work after a fashion.

A nice feature that I haven't noticed yet. Dragging with this tool changes the tolerance independently of the image contents (also works on white and outside the canvas), which seems useful to me because this tool is actually only meant to make a selection on click (unlike the selection brush tool).

For me the tool works exactly the same on Windows and macOS so changing the tolerance setting using the Tolerance Box (typing in new values, or scrolling the mouse wheel etc.) does not alter the existing selection, but dragging with the mouse on canvas does. Personally I find the biggest issue with this tool that it does not support antialiased selection.

If you click/drag the Flood Select Tool on Windows, then dragging to the right increases the tolerance (but ignoring the initial value you set), and if you then drag to the left it will decrease the tolerance.

One would think that I would pay more attention to this. I am amazed by what some of the tools can actually do. Some how I never look there, even though past experience has shown me it is actually quite a good source of information.

If, instead of a mouse, you are using a graphics tablet, as I do, the drag to adjust tolerance feature renders the tool absolutely useless. Nearly every time the pen comes in contact with the tablet, the tolerance changes. More often than not it is reset to a tolerance of one (1). There needs to be a way to disable this so called feature. I've been using magic wand-like tools for forty years without the need for tolerance values to unexpectedly shift during use. For at least 25 years, a Wacom tablet has been my primary input device, supporting both a wireless mouse and a pen. For text based operations I use the mouse, but for all graphics related work I use the pen. Please provide some way to disable the shifting tolerance feature.

Ok, I've been using Paint.NET for a while now and I've NEVER had this problem. But suddenly, starting today (using v2.5) whenever I tried using the magic wand, it selects everything. It basically selects the whole canvas and at first I thought maybe it was just the picture. So I tried a different one that I know the magic wand would work on because I had used that picture before. And what? Nothing, magic wand still selects the whole image. So, then I thought maybe I had to update Paint.NET and so I came here, and what do you know? v2.6 was finally released (nice job by the way, fixed a couple things I had problems with.) So, after installing it I tried again but still no luck. The whole canvas keeps being selected. Can anyone help me fix this problem? Using the magic wand is important to me when I'm working with images, so I really need this tool. Thanks.

Check your tolerance level (the blue bar right under the tools on the toolbar). If you have the tolerance set to 100 (or higher than the difference between the colors of the image), it will select the whole image.

Tolerance tells Paint.net how carefully to select areas of matching color. With Tolerance at 0, if you click on a light red pixel, a medium or dark red pixel next to it will not be selected as well. With Tolerance at 50, the medium pixel will be selected too, but the dark one won't be. With Tolerance near 100, most pixels (possibly including the dark one) will be selected. At 100 Tolerance, everything is selected.

if someone was poking your eye every 10 minutes, you might be TOLERENT of it for the first few times, however the more and more you get poked in the eye, you become more likely to violently poke his eye in retaliation! And then when his eye is all red it might explode...... and I forget where I'm going with this.... PAINT.NET RULES

I have a single layer one colour PNG file and I'm trying to use the magic wand to select part of a logo to change the colour, however, the entire layer is being selected. I'm in Photoshop 22.0.0. I've tried changing the tolerance, selecting 'sample all layers', I've restarted Photoshop and reset the default tools... nothing seems to be working.

It's odd about the Magic Wand. Possibly it's the low tolerance of 2. Try resetting it by right-clicking the tool in the options bar (not Tools panel) and Reset tool and see if it works with the default tolerance of 32.

If it fails in other documents, and if rebooting does not work, then consider resetting Preferences, as they may be corrupt. Go to Photoshop > Preferences > General > Reset Preferences on Quit, after first backing up any customization such as Actions, Gradients, Custom Shapes, etc., as it will give you a clean install.

Yeah, that doesn't work for me, I'm afraid. Not sure why, I've been working in Photoshop for over 20 years and the Magic Wand has never let me down for simple one colour selection, especially on a transparent background layer... I've used Jane's transparency lock workaround this time and for anything more complex I wouldn't use the wand anyway... still an odd one though. Cheers!

I was losing my mind ... until I saw "Quick Mask" beside the file's name (on the tab for the document). I vaguely remember seeing the red mask overlay, but in my haste, I guess I had hit W right after and went along my obliviously merry way.

The Magic Wand (formerly known as the Hitachi Magic Wand) aka the True Magic Wand, Magic Wand Original, Vibratex Magic Wand and Original Magic Wand) is an AC-powered wand vibrator. It was originally manufactured for relieving tension and relaxing sore muscles; however, it is most known for its use as a sex toy. Japanese company Hitachi listed the device for business in the United States in 1968. Sex educator Betty Dodson popularized its use as a vibrator and masturbation aid for women during the sex-positive movement in the late 1960s. It functions effectively as a clitoral vibrator for reaching orgasm. The wand is 12 inches (30 cm) long and weighs 1.2 pounds (540 g) with stimulation provided by its rubberized 2.5-inch (64 mm) head.

Hitachi asserts that its sole intended use is for health care purposes. Hitachi's national sales manager said "we approach the massagers as personal care items... the people we hire know what it's for without our having to say it".[1] Hitachi had a conflict with its U.S. distributor in 2000 and briefly stopped selling the device, until it reached a new deal with distributor Vibratex. The Magic Wand was featured in a 2002 episode of Sex and the City. Hitachi ceased production of the device in 2013 because of concerns about having the company name attached to a sex toy. Vibratex persuaded the company to continue manufacturing it under the name "Original Magic Wand", omitting the Hitachi name. In 2014, the company used the name "Magic Wand Original".

The Magic Wand has alternatively been referred to as the Cadillac or Rolls-Royce of vibrators,[2][3][4][5][6][7] as well as the mother of all vibrators.[8][9][10] Counselors Bettina Arndt, Laura Berman, Gloria Brame, and Ruth Westheimer (Dr. Ruth) recommended the device to women, and Cosmopolitan magazine reported the Magic Wand was the vibrator most often suggested by sex therapists. Mobile Magazine readers in 2005 voted the Magic Wand "the No. 1 greatest gadget of all time".[11] Tanya Wexler's film Hysteria featured the device while showing the evolution of the vibrator. Engadget called the Magic Wand "the most recognizable sex toy on Earth".[12]

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