Your select tool cursor will have a little plus under it to indicate this. You can also use the Magic Wand first, then the other selection tools, but what helps is pressing Shift to add to the selection. * the magic pen is usually not a good tool for this, especially if this area is a traditional drawing scan (lots of different-colored pixels, so even with the tolerance higher, hard to get an exact area) so what I usually do is use the Lasso tool or even the Select tool (Polygon), to get a general area. So I assume you mean that you want to just cut out parts of a picture and make it transparent. * you’re trying to crop things out - usually cropping means cutting off an excess part, but in digital graphics this more exact - an image can be cropped to exclude some frame or outer parts, but not the inside of it. Hi! Ok, so I want to clear some things up before I properly answer: Am I doing something wrong or is there a better way to do this maybe? I've tried messing with the tolerance but haven't had any real success. And I always try the magic pen tool to just select what I want to and then just delete everything else but it never really works and I always end up just going in and erasing stuff manually.

Sometime I'll be in Firealpaca trying to just crop the white space or shadows out of a picture so I can make it transparent.

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