From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals
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Changing size and hardness - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals
Changing size and hardness
In this exercise I'm going to share with you a few shortcuts for changing the size and hardness of a brush on-the-fly, and these are some incredibly useful techniques. If you don't know about them yet, if you don't know about them, you'll be using them on a regular basis in the future. Now, I've gone ahead and created the new sample document for you. It's called Tips from Sketchy.psd found inside the 09_retouch_heal folder. It doesn't look like anything special, but it will shortly. So you can see the size of my brush on screen right there. And I'm going to go ahead and increase its size just a little bit here. I'll go ahead and right-click inside of my Image window and I'll change the Size value to 300 pixels. Notice the Hardness value is set to 100%. And then I'll make my foreground color white and I'll click inside of this layer in order to paint a brush stroke. Now, I can reduce the size of my brush by pressing the Left Bracket key . That's the Square Bracket key just next door to…
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Brushing to correct56s
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How brushing works4m 52s
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Working with spacing7m 32s
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Changing size and hardness7m 45s
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The heads-up Color Picker7m 17s
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Flipping a mirror image3m 33s
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Setting the source for the History brush3m 42s
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Brightening details with the Dodge tool7m 49s
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Darkening details with the Burn tool3m 5s
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The Sponge tool4m 29s
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Backing off edits8m 4s
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Patching eye bags8m 57s
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Evening out flesh tones7m 23s
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Smoothing away whiskers7m 41s
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Reducing shadow noise7m
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How healing works4m 40s
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The enhanced Spot Healing brush4m 52s
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Using the better Healing brush4m 23s
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Introducing the Clone Source panel3m 49s
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Cloning from one layer to another5m 30s
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Working with multiple sources4m 44s
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