Color-color selection criteria to preselect galaxies at z ∼ 5−6, z ∼ 7−8, z ∼ 9−10 in the EGS field, with the Bouwens-like criteria in Table 3. The regions enclosed by the solid black line in the top-left corners show the color-color space region in which galaxies are preselected. The blue contours enclose 50% and 80% of the z >  4.5, z >  6.5, z >  8.5 galaxies input colors (without photometric scatter), and the red contours represent low-redshift quiescent galaxies. Each marker represents the measured colors for a detected source in the CEERS_1 observing strategy. Only sources detected at 5σ in the 3, 2, 2 reddest bands, respectively, are indicated. The green and orange squares are z >  4.5, z >  6.5, z >  8.5 galaxies, the orange squares indicating 1σ upper limits in the bluest band. The red stars are stellar objects, the black dots are low-redshift contaminants.