{"id":163468,"date":"2021-02-19T08:32:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T08:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=163468"},"modified":"2025-07-01T21:13:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T04:13:04","slug":"how-to-refine-the-magic-wand-lines-in-painttool-sai-in-3-easy-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-refine-the-magic-wand-lines-in-painttool-sai-in-3-easy-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Refine the Magic Wand Lines in PaintTool SAI in 3 Easy Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"

PaintTool SAI<\/span><\/a> is a fantastic art tool but can be confusing to use when you\u2019re just getting started. There are so many tools that you can feel a little overwhelmed even when trying to do basic things. Today, we\u2019re going to show you how to deselect or move lines made by the Magic Wand tool.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the Magic Wand?<\/b><\/h2>\n

The Magic Wand is used when you want to start coloring in your image. It auto-selects the area you want to be colored, which is great because it saves you a lot of time. However, it sometimes doesn\u2019t select everything, or it picks too much, and you\u2019ll need to figure how exactly to refine this to ensure that the area is colored in all the right places.<\/span><\/p>\n

Enter, the Select and Deselect Tools<\/b><\/h2>\n

Let\u2019s take a look at how you\u2019d go about refining the lines after using your Magic Wand.<\/span><\/p>\n

Step 1: Select the wand<\/b><\/h3>\n

You\u2019ll first use your Magic Wand tool to select the general area. To do this, select the Magic Wand and click on the area you want to be selected. Don\u2019t panic when it turns blue; this is to show the area that\u2019s been selected.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Step 2: Refine your selection<\/b><\/h3>\n

As you can see on the image shown in Step 1, most of the area was selected by the Magic Wand, but it also selected the character\u2019s eyes (which we don\u2019t want to color here), and it didn\u2019t cover a part of the character\u2019s face. To fix this, you\u2019ll want to click on the Select tool. Use ctrl+alt to resize the brush and start coloring in the area manually that the Magic Wand missed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Step 3: Deselect options<\/b><\/h3>\n

Now you\u2019ll want to select the Deselect tool. This function will allow you to remove parts of the selected area that you don\u2019t want to color at the moment. Again, use ctrl+alt to resize the brush and start coloring the areas that you want to deselect. You\u2019ll see that the blue is now removed from that area.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s just like magic!<\/b><\/h2>\n

When producing any form of art, we always want it to be perfect, and it can be extremely frustrating when the tools that we\u2019re using don\u2019t do what we want them to. Luckily, there is a way to refine this and ensure that you produce the image you see in your mind\u2019s eye.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PaintTool SAI is a fantastic art tool but can be confusing to use when you\u2019re just getting started. There are so many tools that you can feel a little overwhelmed even when trying to do basic things. Today, we\u2019re going to show you how to deselect or move lines made by the Magic Wand tool. … Continue reading “How to Refine the Magic Wand Lines in PaintTool SAI in 3 Easy Steps”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9205,"featured_media":163472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[2370],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-163468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionpainttool-sai"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325052,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163468\/revisions\/325052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163468"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=163468"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=163468"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=163468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}