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Changing the size and hardness on the fly

Changing the size and hardness on the fly - Photoshop Tutorial

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Changing the size and hardness on the fly

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- [Instructor] All right now I'll show you a few keyboard shortcuts for changing the size and the hardness of a brush on the fly. And so I'm going to start off by turning off this brushwork layer, and creating another layer on top of it. So I'll press Control Shift N or Command Shift N on the Mac, and I'll call this guy size and hardness let's say. And then just to make things perfectly clear, I'm going to change the color of my brush which I can do inside the Color panel. When I'm looking at the HSB values, I have this color ramp down here, and so I can just click on a color or drag around or what have you in order to select a different color like so. If you were to click on the background color instead, then you would change the background color. If you press the Alt key while you drag, or the Option key on the Mac, you're going to change whichever color is inactive, in this case the background color. All right…

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