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Painting with the Refine Edge brush

Painting with the Refine Edge brush - Photoshop Tutorial

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Painting with the Refine Edge brush

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- [Instructor] Alright, now let's take a look at how you can paint in an even larger area of refinement, using the refine edge brush tool, which is this guy right here, which, for what it's worth, has a keyboard shortcut of R. Alright, now I'll go ahead and make my brush larger by pressing the right bracket key a few time. And you can see up here in the options bar, I've taken it up to 150 pixels. And then I'll start painting around here, let's say, which is going to bring some more hair into the selection. And then I'll paint back and forth over all of this hair that has a little bit of background behind it. And I end up getting this effect here. So if you wanna take a look at exactly how big your edge has become, just go ahead and turn on that show edge check box, which has a keyboard shortcut of J, which is gonna turn it on, as we're seeing right here. And I'm just gonna paint in a little more edge, right there at that location. And I might go ahead and paint here as well. And…

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