Dreamer's right "...There are so many ways to make a selection and even more to modify a selection..." that i prefer to do things by hand. The magic wand is nice and it would be cool to have a plugin to do the work, but any time its a "point and click" fix, you wind up doing most the work anyway. I use the "quick mask" method myself alot. Give it a try and see if it'll do what you need. retrocity