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Hi, thanks for your reply. Yes I found this works effectively in an image with wide differences between the tones in the image. I am finding when I have several shades of grey, they are either all selected or just some areas, depending on the Magic Wand tolerance. What I have found that seems to work better is to clear the swatches then create new ones from my image, then use the swatches to select the tones via Colour Range.

What I don't understand is when my B&W image is set to 8 'levels' in the Cutout filter, I find 20+ actual shades in the image (i.e. 20+ swatches) which results in 20+ layers to create a complete set of layers for the image? Should there not be just 8 shades as set by the Cutout filter? Thanks