I can't get the magic wand in Illustrator to work.?

I am familiar with photoshop and want to isolate the black outline of a drawing. When I use the magic wand it selects the entire picture, white background and all. What am I missing! Am completely frustrated. Also, in a different project I want to isolate the background behind a person in a photo. It won't do this either. Again, selects entire picture.I can't get the magic wand in Illustrator to work.?
Illustrator wand,


http://www.coe.fau.edu/abinder/handouts/…





when you refer to selecting entire picture, this suggest that you've import image from photoshop or other, thus the image has not been un-rasterized from image to vector outlines first or yet, for example if you type text, it on a line, from type menu, select outlines, then each letter becomes outlined,





but for image, it stays image as one until changed to vector outlines


Scan2CAD raster to vector converter,


http://www.softcover.com/





other possibility is to edit person or background in photoshop, and only copy over each part, also depends what from there, you're try to accomplish, may be other options,


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