Finest Feature of Photoshop

For me one of the best features of Photoshop is the Magic Wand. There have been multiple times when I want to use a portion of an image and leave out the background or change the background. In the images below I have replaced the background. I used the following steps.

1. Cropped the original image to include a portion of the canvas.
2. Added text to the canvas portion using the Vertical Type Tool
3. Double clicked the Background layer to create a new layer
4. Selected the MagicWand, Contiguous and made the Tolerance 50
5. Placed the Magic Wand over a portion of the sky and using the Shift key, highlighted all of the sky portions of the image
6. Clicked Delete to remove the sky
7. Added a new color background (using inDesign--I'm sure there is probably a way to do this in Photoshop).