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Enhancing a Smart Filter mask

Enhancing a Smart Filter mask - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Mastery

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Enhancing a Smart Filter mask

- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to refine our filter mask so that the tail is blurrier and the head is in sharper focus. So notice right now we have this kind of bounce around the head whereas in the final version of the image we have nice, sharp edges. And so while there's a stubble difference, notice these bottom teeth right here. In the final image, they're nice and sharp, whereas right now they're positively glowing. And so the first thing I'm going to do is press control zero or command zero on a Mac to zoom out. And then I'm going to view the filter mask independently of the rest of the image by alt or option clicking on its thumbnail here inside the layers panel. Alright, now what we want to do is make the head black so that the head is protected and we want to make the tail white so that it gets a full blast of the blur effect. And I'm going to do that by going up to the image menu, choosing adjustments and then choosing the levels command, or you can press a…

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