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About Kevin Stohlmeyer
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I am an Adobe Certified Expert. I can answer all your questions about Adobe Illustrator version 7 through the new Adobe CS3 version.

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I am an Adobe Certified Instructor for Adobe Illustrator and have been teaching this application to college students for the past 6 years. I now teach this as a corporate instructor.

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Topic: Adobe Illustrator



Expert: Kevin Stohlmeyer
Date: 5/11/2008
Subject: Illustrator magic wand

Question
For the life of me I can't get magic wand to do anything in Illustrator CS 11.  I've had the program for years but have never been able to get past the wand - which I use all the time in Photoshop.

I import an image, and try to select certain portions of it to no avail.  All that happens is it selects the entire object.

It should be so simple???

Thanks in advance for your answer.

Cal smith  

Answer
HI Calvin,

The magic wand in Illustrator is completely different than the one in Photoshop. The magic wand in Illustrator is used to select similar objects, not images (ie. same fill, stoke, etc.). It will not work in placed images.

Thanks

Kevin  

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