1. | Choose the Magic Wand. |
2. | Set the Tolerance in the Tool Options bar to 20, as shown in Figure 3.11. This enables you to select only similar shades of blue. Be sure that Contiguous is not selected so that you can pick up the blue patches between the leaves. [View full size image] |
3. | Click the Magic Wand on a typical piece of blue (see Figure 3.12).Figure 3.12. You might need to make several selections to include all of the sky.
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4. | Hold down the Shift key and select additional pieces of sky and cloud until you have it all. |
5. | Look carefully at the selected areas. Have you selected bits of blue or white that aren't part of the sky? Change the tool to the Lasso, and press Option/Alt while you draw a line around pieces of the image that you want to deselect. You might have to do this several times. |
6. | Now you can proceed to change the color of the sky, press Delete to remove it, or do whatever else you intended. Figure 3.13 shows the image with the sky completely gone.
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