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                    Select a color range
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                <div><div class="section"><p>The Color Range command selects a specified
color or color range within an existing selection or an entire image.
If you want to replace a selection, be sure to deselect everything
before applying this command. The Color Range command is not available
for 32‑bits-per-channel images.</p>
<p>To refine an existing selection,
use the Color Range command repeatedly to select a subset of colors.
For example, to select the green areas in a cyan selection, select
Cyans in the Color Range dialog box, and click&#160;OK. Then
reopen the Color Range dialog box, and select Greens. (The results
are subtle because this technique selects parts of colors within
a color mix.) </p>
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<ol><li class="stepexpand"><span>Choose Select&#160;&gt; Color Range. </span> <div class="para"><div class="tip"><img src="images/tip_help.png" />You can also use Color Range to refine
a layer mask. See <a href="WS1B81490D-0B73-4086-BC65-8ABD4E77D573.html">Change mask opacity or refine edges</a>.</div></div>
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<li class="stepexpand"><span>Choose the Sampled Colors tool from the Select menu.</span> <p>You
can also choose a color or tonal range from the Select menu, but
you won’t be able to adjust the selection. The&#160;Out‑Of‑Gamut
option works only on RGB and Lab images. (An out‑of‑gamut color
is an RGB or Lab color that cannot be printed using process color
printing.)</p>
<p>If you are selecting multiple color ranges in the
image, select Localized Color Clusters to build a more accurate
selection. </p>
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<li class="stepexpand"><span>Select one of the display options:</span> <dl><dt class="dlterm">Selection</dt>
<dd>Previews the selection that will result from the colors
you sample in the image. White areas are selected pixels, black
areas are unselected, and gray areas are partially selected.</dd><p class="dlseparator"></p><dt class="dlterm">Image</dt>
<dd>Previews the entire image. For example, you might want
to sample from a part of the image that isn’t on‑screen.<div class="tip"><img src="images/tip_help.png" />To toggle between the Image and Selection previews
in the Color Range dialog box, press Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac&#160;OS). </div></dd><p class="dlseparator"></p></dl>
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<li class="stepexpand"><span>Position the Eyedropper pointer over the image or preview
area, and click to sample the colors you want included. </span> <div class="fignone"><img alt="" id="se_03" src="images/se_03.png" /><div class="figdesc">Sampling color</div><br /></div></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>Adjust the range of colors selected
using the Fuzziness slider or by entering a value. The Fuzziness
setting controls how wide a range of colors is in the selection,
and increases or decreases the amount of partially selected pixels (gray
areas in the selection preview). Set a low Fuzziness value to restrict
the color range, a higher value to increase the range.</span> <div class="fignone"><img alt="" id="se_04" src="images/se_04.png" /><div class="figdesc">Increasing fuzziness expands selection</div><br /></div><p>If
you selected Localized Color Clusters, use the Range slider to control
how far or near a color must be from the sample points to be included
in the selection. For example, your image contains a patch of yellow
flowers in both the foreground and the background, but you want
to select just the foreground flowers. Sample the colors in the
foreground flowers and reduce the Range so that the similarly colored
flowers in the background are not selected.</p>
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<li class="stepexpand"><span>Adjust the selection:</span><ul><li><p>To add colors, select the plus eyedropper,
and click in the preview area or image.</p>
</li>
<li><p>To remove colors, select the minus eyedropper, and
click in the preview area or image.</p>
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</ul>
 <div class="tip"><img src="images/tip_help.png" />To activate the plus eyedropper temporarily,
hold down Shift. Hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac&#160;OS)
to activate the minus eyedropper.</div></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>To
preview the selection in the image window, choose an option for
Selection Preview.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>To revert to the original selection, hold down Alt (Windows)
or Option (Mac&#160;OS), and click Reset.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>To save and load color range settings, use the Save and
Load buttons in the Color Range dialog box to save and reuse the
current settings.</span></li>
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<div class="section"><div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:  </span> If you see the message “No pixels are
more than 50% selected,” the selection border will not be visible.
You may have picked a color choice from the Select menu, such as
Reds, when the image didn’t contain any red hues with high enough saturation.</div>
<p>For
a video on making selections, see <a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/vid0002" target="_blank">www.adobe.com/go/vid0002.</a></p>
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