Saturday, 8 April 2017

What is the difference between Magic Wand tool in Photoshop and Illustrator?

For anyone accustomed to using Adobe Photoshop, you will often use the selection tools, and one of the selection tools that are often used is the Magic Wand Tool.
Magic Wand Tool is easy to use for selection, especially when the area that we want to make a selection that has the same color or similar.
Did you know that, Adobe Illustrator has a similar tool?
Must function the same, is not it?
Although the names are the same, but how the tool works in Photoshop and Illustrator is slightly different.


Magic Wand Tool in Photoshop
Magic Wand tool in Photoshop will create a selection area on the same color or similar



Use the Magic Wand tool in Illustrator on the same images we use in Photoshop do not produce any selection area. As if only the bounding box that appears.

Magic Wand Tool in Illustrator

How exactly the Magic Wand Tool works in Illustrator?
As we know, Illustrator is a vector-based. Therefore, almost all the tools available in Illustrator only works on vector objects.
Function Magic Wand Tool in Illustrator is to select any vector objects that have the same properties (Fill Color / Stroke Color / Stroke Weight / Opacity / Blending Mode), even if the object is scattered.


Options for the Magic Wand tool in Illustrator

The main function of the Magic Wand tool in both the software is the same: to make a selection, just a little different in how it works. In Photoshop, the image selection area will produce selection, but in Illustrator, selection can not be performed on the image, but the vector objects and objects that are similar in character (Fill Color / Stroke Color / Stroke Weight / Opacity / Blending Mode) will be selected.







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