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Softening edges with the Blur tool

Softening edges with the Blur tool - Photoshop Tutorial

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Softening edges with the Blur tool

- [Instructor] All right, so we've managed to combine, more or less, the best of the select subject and color range commands, but our resulting mask is by no means perfect. Which is why I'm gonna show you how to clean it up using a combination of the brush, blur, and smudge tools. All right, I'm gonna go ahead and zoom in on this guy's hand, as well as the top of the iPad, and I might as well scoot down a little bit as well. And then, I'm gonna view the layer mask all by itself by alt or option + clicking on that layer mask thumbnail here inside the layers panel. And notice that we have a little bit of a dark edge over here in the corner of the iPad, and we've also got some problems along this guy's knuckles. But, I want you to think, as you're working through your masks, how many of these details are circular in nature? And so, for example, if I were to scroll up to the top right corner of that iPad, and select the brush tool, which you can get by pressing the B key. And if you want,…

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