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Smoothing the mask, recreating the corners - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Smoothing the mask, recreating the corners
In this exercise, we're going to smooth out the edges around the shark using an old-school technique that involves Gaussian Blur and the Levels command, and then we'll restore a few corners using the Magnetic Lasso tool. I've saved my progress as Levitating shark.psd, and if you zoom-in on the detail of the shark such as the tail here, you can see that we've got a few jags going on, and I want to smooth those away and here's how you do that. Switch over to the layer Mask for that shark layer. So click on the thumbnail to make sure it's active. Then, you go up to the Filter menu, you choose Blur, and you choose Gaussian Blur and this is a recipe that works beautifully for just about any image. I'm going to change the Radius value in this case to 4 pixels, that's what I ended up coming up with. But, you want a value that's large enough to blur away those jagged edges, so that we have some smooth forms going on. Now, you don't want it to be too big either, so as low as you can go. In our…
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Introducing the Color Range command5m 59s
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Working in the Color Range dialog box7m 7s
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Primary colors and luminance ranges4m 12s
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A terrific use for Color Range4m 57s
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Introducing the Quick Mask mode7m 43s
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Moving a selection into a new background5m 43s
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Smoothing the mask, recreating the corners8m 43s
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Integrating foreground and background4m 44s
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Creating a cast shadow from a layer2m 51s
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Releasing and masking layer effects3m 11s
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Creating a synthetic rainbow effect4m 30s
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Masking and compositing your rainbow4m 46s
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The best selection tools are commands1m 5s
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