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Hand-brushing a selection

Hand-brushing a selection - Photoshop Tutorial

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Hand-brushing a selection

I'm still working inside Lips.jpg. Again, at this stage, it can't reasonably provide you with the progress file so you'll have to have been working right along with me. In this exercise, we're going to go ahead and paint inside of the Quick Mask mode, in order to fill in the selection inside those highlights. So, I want you to go ahead and select the Brush tool, and this is going to require some manual brushing, here inside the lips. However, the good news is if I zoom in here, I've already got some nice edges to work with. The only problem is I am going to have to work with a hard brush. I can't work with a Soft Brush, which is what I have by default. So I am going to right-click inside of my image window, and the first step is to go ahead and increase the size of your brush, and I'm going to recommend the brush diameter 60 pixels. And then go ahead and maximize the Hardness value to 100% and press the Enter key a couple of times or the Return key a couple times in the Mac, in order…

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