Join Deke McClelland for an in-depth discussion in this video Brush size, hardness, and opacity, part of Photoshop CS6 One-on-One: Intermediate.
In this movie I'm going to pass along another trick for changing the size of…the brush inside the Liquify dialog box that also happens to work in the larger world of Photoshop.…So for starters, I'll go up to the Filter menu and choose the Liquify command,…and then I'm going to zoom in as before, and you may notice if you watched the…Brush Size value right here.…When I press the right Bracket key, I increase the size of the brush in pretty big…increments, especially once I start getting into the hundreds.…I go from 300 to 400 to 500 to 600, and so on.…
If you want better control than that, then there's another way to work.…Here on the PC you can press the Alt key, and then press the right-mouse button…and drag in order to either reduce or increase the size of the brush and notice…that you have way more control.…Keep an eye on that Brush Size value over there in the upper right-hand corner,…and you'll see that I'm changing the Brush Size in 2-pixel increments.…So much finer control here.…On the Mac what you'd you do is you press the Ctrl key, not the Command key,…
Author
Deke McClelland
Released
7/20/2012- Performing automatic retouch, scaling, and more with the Content-Aware tools
- Editing the histogram
- Customizing a Levels adjustment
- Making channel-by-channel Levels adjustments
- Sharpening with the Smart Sharpen, Emboss, and High Pass filters
- Working with vector-based type
- Kerning and tracking characters
- Creating text on a path
- Drawing and customizing shapes
- Creating depth, contour, and texture with layer effects
- Liquifying an image
- Simulating an infrared photo
- Adjusting print position, size, and color
- Creating the perfect JPEG image
- Downsampling for the web
Skill Level Intermediate
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11. The Content-Aware Collection
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Introducing the Patch tool3m 43s
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Using Content-Aware Patch5m 42s
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Scaling in multiple passes2m 21s
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Protecting skin tones3m 31s
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12. Adjusting Levels
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Opening up the shadows2m 48s
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Previewing clipped pixels3m 40s
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Faking a gray card in post2m 51s
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Editing the histogram1m 50s
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13. Sharpening Details
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The More Accurate check box4m 44s
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Correcting for camera shake3m 25s
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Sharpening with High Pass4m 44s
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Painting in sharpness3m 1s
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How sharpening works1m 38s
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14. Creating and Formatting Text
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Font and type style tricks7m 10s
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Type size and color tricks7m 29s
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Creating text along a path6m 12s
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Adjusting baseline shift5m 40s
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Vector-based type1m 35s
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15. Drawing Shapes
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The other vector-based layer1m 40s
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16. Layer Effects
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Depth, contour, and texture1m 28s
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The power of the drop shadow7m 37s
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17. Paragraph, Character, and Layer Styles
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Styles store settings1m 38s
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18. Scale, Rotate, Skew, and Warp
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Scale, duplicate, and repeat4m 30s
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Meet the transformations1m 55s
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19. Liquifying an Image
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Lifting and slimming details9m 31s
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Improving a model's posture4m 40s
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20. Converting to Black & White
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Three ways to grayscale5m 36s
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21. Printing an Image
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Using the test document3m 18s
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Establishing a bleed3m 44s
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Getting reliable color5m 54s
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Special printing options5m 1s
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Creating contact sheets4m 49s
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Creating a multipage PDF3m 51s
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The many ways to print1m 41s
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22. Saving for the Web
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Introducing Save for Web4m 54s
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The two varieties of PNG3m 57s
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Downsampling for the web5m 19s
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Making Internet imagery1m 10s
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Conclusion
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