Selection of magic wand that turned bad in CS4 for Windows - how to fix?

I am currently working on a project of game modding than altered uses of the photos as icons.  Most of these photos have (usually white) background which I am replacing it with color gradients.  My usual method for the manufacture of the icon:

  1. Create my gradient background in a white square of size; Save this file.
  2. The Outbox folder, add a new transparent layer.
  3. Open the photo to be altered (file B) and my game-icon (file C) model in separate tabs.
  4. Select the unwanted parts of file B with the magic wand tool; Cut; repeat if necessary.
  5. Select the entire image is in file B; If so, resample a file match B and C (256 x 256 pixels, 96 DPI).
  6. Copy the picture and paste it into the transparent layer of the file has.
  7. Flatten image in the Outbox folder, and then select all and copy.
  8. Paste this new image (with the gradient background) in the C file transparent layer.
  9. Flatten the image into an icon of the full game, recording as a file D.dds with the "Alpha channel" and Alpha DXT3/Explicit options.  (You will need the Nvidia DDS plugin for this step.)

Usually, these steps give me decent looking results (see photos #1 and #2 for a before/after).  Sometimes, however, the wand chooses too and cannot limit the unwanted area more (see photos #3 and #4 for a before/after). I would like to try the lasso tool if my hands partially paralyzed could manage other users of Photoshop here are technical advice?

red_apples01.jpgresource_apples_256.jpgcider_jug.jpgselect_fail.jpg

Color range selections, channel operations, the adjustments made on the custom selections / channels. You need to combine several techniques and selections. For example, you can always try to create a luminance mask, save it as a custom channel and using levels or curves adjustments cut unwanted parts, and then load it as a choice on which you can then use the edges, refine and add / subtract / intersect other selections...

Mylenium

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