All right. Is a little trick for doing masks, this video, you've been doing lots of masking, videos, selections and masking. And I heard you say another one, dad give me one more. This is just a small one and it's a little trick that I wanted to keep in here because I use it all the time. It's a little hard to get places. So let's say we used this image in the last one and we went focus area and that worked great to a point. Okay, we minus this chunk out, just like the mask radius smoothing. Might shift the edge in a little bit and it kind of got it to a nice point, right? But there's a couple of parts this bit here is the main offender click. Ok. There's one there as well. So I'm going to show you how to use the smudge tool. Okay. I use it because I'll show you why. Let's do this one first. He's the easiest one to get because I'm going to work on my mask. And what people tend to do is they grab the brush tool and then they just make it really small. And then how small do you make it y...

ou keep like, let's let's actually do it so I can show you. So in here really small, what's my capacity? I will put it at 100%. I just get that bit and then I make the brush a bit smaller and then I get that. But you're into this kind of like it always ends up looking a bit fake doing it that way. So along comes the smudge tool. What does the smudge tool do if I work on the actual image and I zoom out a little bit. The smudge tool is this little finger here. Here's normally the blur tool. If you hold them down, grab the smudge tool up here just make sure it's set, you might have been playing around. Just pick one of these top general brushes, pick any brush. Okay. And what we'll do is their strength around about 50% And we'll set the hardness to zero basically. If I'm working on the actual pixels it just smudges things, right? Just you can kind of see it there. Smudgy smudgy smudge. But that same little thing when I'm working on the actual mask does some really cool stuff. So I'm going to pick an appropriate brush size and then kind of smudge it in and look let go, I'm just gonna smudge it in. I'll show you what I mean what it does. I'm gonna hold down the key on a pC option. Can Mac just click on the Master, show you what it's doing and undo because the smudge tool. Watch this if I make it nice and big if I just push from the edge. What happens when I click and drag I'm just holding the mouse key down. No way come to but you can see it kind of as it's moving along. It kind of slowly makes the radius smaller and the effects smaller so it's really good for pushing into those edges, Turn it back on, pick up our size two men and in this case it might make the hardness just a little bit less. Just push in here, you can see it just gets in the corners really quick and easy rather than messing about with the making the brushes bigger and smaller seeing here as well in these corners. Ah look how cool that is. Do it for this one as well. There was that one oh sneaky trick there if you hold down the H key on your keyboard so I couldn't find where this was right, I was down here and I was like we've all done it right, you're like okay I want to go to this other part and you're like oh man I should've zoomed out, you can't find it right if you hold down the H. Key on your keyboard moves to the hand tool. But the extra perk for it is if you click and hold down the mouse key, okay, it zooms out to like full zoom and then you move it around and say I want to look at this bit, Retouch it, retouch it, retouch it, fix it, fix it, hold on h click holding the mouse key down over here and now I'm going to kind of work in this bit here, you can see it's not starting down here so I might have to grab my brush tool and just kind of start a little bit back to my smudge tool and then just kind of work this out into the gaps. Have fun. You might not like it, you might do. I hope you do like it. Get into those corners. Nice look at that. If you're using a wacom tablet, you probably wouldn't have to do this because it's pressure sensitive, right? And you can just just hold it a little bit lighter and it goes and pushes it down. It's a pesky one. Pesky one again. Okay, now I'm just moving around but you get the idea right Smudge tool can be handy for those kind of corners that you need to get into. Just a little quick little bonus video. Alright, let's move on.

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Selection Trick Using the Smudge Tool in Photoshop

Selection Trick Using the Smudge Tool in Photoshop

Lesson Info

15. Selection Trick Using the Smudge Tool in Photoshop

Lessons

Class Introduction

Before you get Started with the Photoshop Advanced Course

The Easiest Way in the World to Mask a Person in Adobe Photoshop

Class Project - Select Subject

Select Mask & Changing a Color using Photoshop - Color Range

Using Photoshop Selection to Fix Grass & Sky - Color Range

How to Change the Color of Skin in Photoshop - Color Range

How to Create an Ink Splash Image Around Text - Color Range

Class Project - Color Range in Adobe Photoshop

Mask on a Group Rather than each Layer

Advanced Masking using a Channels in Adobe Photoshop

Class Project - Channel Mask

How to Make Selections in Photoshop Based on the Focus Area

Class Project - Focus Area

Selection Trick Using the Smudge Tool in Photoshop

Future of Selections in Photoshop with Adobe Sneaks

Quiz - Selection & Masking

Advanced Preference Changes for Adobe Photoshop

How to Speed up Adobe Photoshop if it’s Running Slow

Workflow Tips & Tricks Like a Professional in Photoshop

Advanced Layer Tricks in Adobe Photoshop CC

Automatically Add a Watermark Text or Logo in Photoshop

Batch or Image Process Multiple Images at Once in Photoshop

How to put Loads of Images into one Photoshop File Quickly

Weird Adobe Photoshop Features & Easter Eggs

How to Enlarge Images Without Becoming Blurry in Photoshop

How to Fix Blurry Images in Photoshop Using Shake Reductions

Advanced Color & Tone Correction Using Levels in Photoshop

Advanced Curves in Adobe Photoshop CC

Quiz - Fixing Images

How to Reshape Images Without Distorting in Photoshop Content Aware Scale

How to use Content Aware Move in Photoshop

How to use Content Aware Extend in Adobe Photoshop

Removing Objects Using Content Aware Fill in Photoshop

Class Project - Content Aware Fill

Cropping Tricks Delete Pixel & Reveal Cropped Content in Photoshop

Automatically Crop & Rotate Scanned Documents in Photoshop

Crop Angled Images to Straighten Perspective Cropping Photoshop

How to Trim the White Away from the Edge of an Image in Photoshop

Automatically Align Layers in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Reshape Images using the Puppet Warp in Photoshop

Class Exercise - Puppet Warp

How to Change the Perspective in Photoshop Perspective Warp

Quiz - Cropping & Aligning & Distorting

How to Color Black & White Image in Photoshop

How to Create a Duotone Effect in Adobe Photoshop CC

44. Class Project – Duotone in Adobe Photoshop

How to create the Glitch Effect in Adobe Photoshop

Class Project - Glitch Effect in Adobe Photoshop

Color Grading with Orange & Teal Effect in Adobe Photoshop

Class Project - Color Grading in Adobe Photoshop

Quiz - Color

Advanced CC Libraries Tricks and Tips Photoshop

Advanced Type Trick & Workflows in Adobe Photoshop

Photoshop Can Guess your Font Using Match Fonts

Quiz - Typography

52. Adding Artboards to your Photoshop Workflow Properly

How to Add Images Correctly to a Photoshop Artboard

Using Smart Objects & Relinking Images in Photoshop

Advanced Speed Tricks for Updating Artboards in Photoshop

Export Artboards as PDF & Separate JPGs in Photoshop

Quiz - Artboards

Advanced Tricks for Healing Brush for Retouching in Photoshop

Don’t Forget About Clone Tool Stamp in Photoshop

How to use the Patch Tool for Retouching in Photoshop

Class Exercise – Retouching in Photoshop

How to Retouch in Photoshop Using Face Aware in Liquify

How to Use Vanishing Point to Mocking up Designs in Photoshop

Vanishing Point - Cloning & Healing at an Angle in Photoshop

64. Class Exercise - Vanishing Point in Photoshop

Fixing & Retouching Skin Tone in Adobe Photoshop

Retouching Eyes by Enhancing in Adobe Photoshop

Retouching Eyes with a Little Bit of Fakery in Photoshop

Fully Faking Believable Eyes in Adobe Photoshop