How to Use the Magic Wand in FireAlpaca

First, look at what you want to select. Is the color all within one line, or is it scattered around the canvas? Are there slight variations of the color you want to select, or is the color all the same?

Here, I want to select all the red circles and change the color as it doesn’t work with my background color.

Select the Magic Wand from the left-hand side of the program. You can also press W to activate the Magic Wand quickly.

Once you have selected the wand, you can change a few settings in the top settings bar. The first is the reference point, which you can switch between Canvas and Active Layer.

If you set the reference point to the Canvas, it will select the color across all the visible layers on the canvas. If you choose Active Layer, the wand will only select the color on your current layer.

You can also adjust the Tolerance value by moving the slider in the top settings bar. The Tolerance determines how many color variations you want to be selected.

Setting a low tolerance means that only the exact color you click on is selected. If you set the Tolerance higher, any similar colors within the same lines as the color you click on will also be selected.

If you only want to select the color, you click on then set the tolerance low. However, if you want to select a color and its shading, which is a slightly darker color, increase the tolerance.

Increasing the tolerance too much will select other colors, so test out how far you can push it before it selects unwanted colors.

If you want the selection to expand slightly past the color or slightly inside the color, you can adjust the Expand setting. Selecting a value above 0 expands the selection by that amount while selecting a value below 0 contracts the selection by that amount.

Once you have the settings as you want them, click on a color on the canvas with the Magic Wand to select that color. The color you specified will be brighter than the rest of the canvas, and the marching ants pattern will surround it.

If you want to add the same color to the selection in a different area of the drawing, you can select more areas by holding in Shift and clicking on them. You will notice that the circles connected to a circle with a different color only have the red area selected and not the other color.

If you accidentally add a different color into the selection or an area you didn’t mean to, as I did with the purple circle at the bottom, you can easily subtract from the selection. Hold Control on Windows or Command on Mac and click on the area to deselect it.

You can now add any adjustments to the selected areas. You can change the color, add filters, delete the pixels, and more. I will add a Hue filter to change the color of the red circles to match the background better.

To remove the selection and continue working on the entire canvas, press Control + D on Windows or Command + D on Mac to deselect the selection.