So just to be clear, you want to select up until the grey line in the zoomed in portion?
And the wand tolerance is making that impossible?
Just want to make sure I understand. I def understand the wand being too little and then suddenly way too much, haha.
edit: this is just using the outline tool and selecting the outside alpha, and hitting cntrl + I to select the invert, which i then made disappear.
some of your layers are made as overlays and show up underneath the background.
with grey