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To: Thomas Mercer-Hursh who wrote (4299)	12/29/2002 5:33:58 PM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (2) of 21662

A graphics tablet will indeed help very much. If you're a perfectionist about selection areas (I am!), another reason to have PShop is the Path tool, not found in Elements. Its accuracy far exceeds every other selection tool in the program. It's faster to work with, too, once you get over the initial awkwardness of working w/ Bezier handles. No clean up issues that you run into with Magic Wand. "As for the issue of making the selection in the first place, my experience thus far is that the magic wand is sometimes just that, i.e., magic, but that there are a lot of situations where I find that having the tolerance low enough for it to not wander past the edge also means that limited amounts of the total desired area are marked with each click and it can take a lot of fussiness to clean out all the little islands. Lasso seems to be a bit more workable in those cases because the cleanup is pretty straightforward, but one loses the natural edge detection ... leaving me wishing I had gotten off my duff and bought a graphics tablet so I would have better control."

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