2 Easy Ways To Smooth Edges In Photoshop

Learn how to smooth edges in Photoshop using two different techniques!
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If you're tired of having blocky, jagged, or pixelated edges around your selections, this tutorial has you covered. Here you'll learn how to smooth edges in Photoshop using the Select & Mask workspace with two effective techniques. The first requires a bit of manual effort, but yields the best results, while the second uses sliders to quickly smooth and enhance edges around your selection. We then look at the huge different these techniques make so you can clearly see the impact of these adjustments. I hope you enjoy!
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Timestamps:
0:00 Creating & Refining The Original Selection
2:50 Stage 1: Manual Refinements In Select & Mask
5:56 Stage 2: Global Refinements
8:40 Comparing The Before & After

[@AhmedRahman-b5s]

Good stuff mate!

[@ziaulmonsur]

Thank you a lot not just for your excellent tutorial but also for your clear accent easily audible and understandable for us non native English speaker 🎉

[@krishchandran4125]

Thanks so much Brendan !! Excellent video. No matter how well one knows photoshop we all benefit from improving selections.

[@sonjon1000]

What a great tip, never used the shift key for this purpose before, many thanks

[@MarioPirespires]

Thank you,,,Great job !

[@hogartp]

Hi Brendan Thank you very much for your great tutorials. I really enjoy that you very clearly go through all the steps in detail and take the time to explain everything. I know when I first started doing some composing work that I would watch video tutorials and it just seemed like the person was able to magically fix everything by pressing one or two buttons, but they never explained the details the way that you do. Pat Hogarty from El Dorado Hills California

[@lastpreacher9093]

Thank you, Brendan.

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

You are welcome!

[@cheska9999]

Brendan! Thank you so much. This is just what I’ve been struggling with for days! Keep ‘em coming!

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

You are welcome!

[@annebrooks5940]

Great video, Brendan. I'm mostly having trouble making good selections around hair, especially a child's hair that is flyaway. Do you plan to make a video on this? Thanks!

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

It is on my to-do list for KZbin. Its something I cover in my Selections Made Simple course but don’t have much youtube content on that topic yet.

[@annebrooks5940]

Also, is the tut made recently using the latest 2024 version in PS? Thanks

[@Steve_I_See]

Very helpful tutorial - thanks!!

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@sonjon1000]

What about selecting difficult hair?

[@lovesmyway]

I need this - thanks.

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

Happy to help

[@gnarlsduceington]

Thank you

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

You're welcome

[@timmytee734]

Will this method work on objects that look like that to begin with? What if the object's edges are uneven?

[@incredibleParikrama]

Despite double clicking on the layer mask, I am unable to get the Layer Mask work space as shown by you. Please help.

[@danielwilson1105]

Good stuff, but, personally i appreciate less talking and more tutorial