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The illusion of continuous strokes

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The illusion of continuous strokes

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- [Voiceover] Did you know that Adobe has been fooling us for years, into believing that Photoshop's brushes paint continuous strokes of color. Well, I'm here to tell you that it's a total conspiracy. I'm going to unmask this fallacy, once and for all, right here in this movie. I'm gonna be working with the hard, round brush. Let's go ahead and open up the brush panel. I'm gonna just draw a little bit with it. What I want you to notice here are a couple things. One is, the default spacing for this brush is 25%. But if we get close to this, you can see these little, what I call, bumplets along the edge of this. That is because, each one of these, what are actually individual strokes, and we can actually prove that by expanding on the spacing. You can see there's actually a single dab. And depending on how it's spaced, you are going to get either the illusion of a continuous brush, or if it's not set low enough, you're gonna start to see these artifacts. Now, I suspect that the reason…

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