Need help using Paint shop pro 8, magic wand

[AUTO4]

When you use the magic want to select stuff it makes certain things look as if they reflect light or shine(tiny things). Well how can I capture that look and make it permanent. So in other words I want the object in the picture to shine or reflect. How would I do this? Please help!

 

[ChrisHunt]

I think you're misinterpreting what you're seeing.

Let's suppose I take a picture of myself wearing a red shirt, and want to select the shirt with the magic wand. I click the shirt and it selects everything that's that shade of red. But things are very rarely of one uniform shade - there will be parts of that shirt that aren't quite the right colour, often quite tiny parts, often parts that are catching the light in real life. Those bits are excluded from the selection.

PSP puts a moving border around its selections, sometimes known as "marching ants". For those little areas in the selection that aren't the right colour, the border may be so small that you can't see the "ants" - it just seems to twinkle. But it's still a selection border all the same.

You can't get the same effect in a static image.

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd

 

[AUTO4]

So there is no way for me to permanently add the marching ants to the image?

 

[Volk359]

Not unless it's an animated GIF and you'd have to create the marching ants or "marquee" manually without the magic wand. As Chris said all the magic wand does is show you what you've selected. Same as if you use the Selection Tool (rectangle) or the Freehand Selection Tool (rope thingy). It's not intended to be a permanent part of the image.

 

[AUTO4]

OK, then how would I creat the "marquee" manually?

 

[Volk359]

Draw your dashes then redraw them for each frame. I haven't done any animation so I'm not much help from here. Keeping your marquee on a seperate layer will make it easier.