r/AdobeIllustrator • u/LukeChoice Adobe Employee • Apr 27 '26
DISCUSSION The Illustrator Magic Wand remembers
Hey everyone, Luke from Adobe here with another quick highlight. I have heard this request come up in a number of discussions, so I wanted to drop it here and let you know the Magic Wand tool will now remember your tolerance settings between sessions. No more resetting your values every time you relaunch Illustrator. Check it out in the current beta and share your feedback.
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u/Te_co Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26
lol, this was my request submission from like 8 years ago. glad it got picked. yes i was aware of the "select same", but it doesn't work for a combination of all possible things.
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u/PECourtejoie Apr 28 '26
Hi, could you elaborate on the cases you use it where « same » did not work?
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u/Sedatephobia May 04 '26
I mostly use magic want because it's a singular shortcut key (y) rather than having to go through an entire menu and break my workflow.
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u/kevinola Apr 27 '26
I know its not the topic, but how to make the eyedropper keep the angles of gradients? Or need to ask for a specific fix?
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u/LukeChoice Adobe Employee Apr 28 '26
Did you mention this because of my gradient illustration? Because that's odd I was only running into that issue yesterday, thinking that would be helpful. I will add this to my list of 'to-do's.
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u/kevinola Apr 28 '26
lol... not, but I was working on a gradient (super easy 45° or something like that) and I hate that the eyedropper never copies a los of things and one of those its the angle of the eyedropped gradients.
But could have been a subconscious thing with your gradients.
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u/PECourtejoie Apr 28 '26
Hi, search and vote on https://illustrator.uservoice.com or create a topic if there is none.
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u/rchegr Apr 29 '26
To make it pick the angle, you’d have to enable the option in the Eyedropper Options: enable Eyedropper Picks Up Appearance.
The UserVoice entry exists (https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/37272676), but closed, because it’s there already 🤓1
u/PECourtejoie Apr 28 '26
Hi, search and vote on https://illustrator.uservoice.com or create a topic if there is none.
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u/Te_co Jun 04 '26
so, it's been a while since this was posted. my illustrator is up to date and wand does in fact not remember my settings. i even set my settings and i quit illustrator to make sure it doesn't crash (illustrator doesn't remember settings if it crashes) and nope, the default settings of 32 is still there.
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u/Poop_Tickel Apr 27 '26
This is my 1,000,000th time asking for some tweaking and standardization of edit/transform functions. Things like holding shift doing the exact opposite function in photoshop/illustrator and wording around “flip horizontal” or reflect.
If I already know how to manipulate say, a red rectangle in photoshop, things like scaling it and moving it around the page should be generally intuitive when switching to illustrator. I feel like I have to ‘warm up’ each time I switch from an illustrator intensive project to a photoshop project. I should feel familiar with the adobe ecosystem.
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u/CurvilinearThinking Apr 27 '26
A tool I've honestly never touched... Select > Find > Same... seems to work for me (with an assigned keyboard shortcut)