How to Make Smooth Edges in Photoshop in 5 Minutes

Tutorial on smoothing technique in Photoshop. This video will teach you how to make smoother edges of any object. If you want to train your graphic design skills, be sure to check out some of my other videos and consider subscribing!

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[ericinpublico]

Steps:
1. Ctrl + Click thumbnail of desired object
2. Channels tab (windows ->channels)
3. click new mask (at the bottom. "Japanese flag"
4. Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur (blur rough edges)
5. Image -> adjustments -> levels -> Adjust to make sharp
6. Ctrl + Click mask thumbnail
7. Select original layer
8. If selection area is smaller -> leave as is, or select -> modify -> contract -> contract by 1 or more pixels
If selection is bigger -> select -> modify -> contract -> contract by 1 or more pixels
9. Selection tool -> right click -> select inverse - delete
10. magic

[zRetrooh]

Nice tutorial, but this doesn't really work for PNG's with no background.

I'm having an issue, while following step by step, once the mask is created, the background simply turns black and the logo turns white, making it impossible to see the changes made. It was already hard because of the selection rounding the logo, plus this black background makes it literally IMPOSSIBLE.

Yes, I tried ctrl+i and the logo just disappears.

[WHOWHATXO]

Perfect!!! This is what I wanted. Thank You

[gloryexpressed]

Thank you so very much. Your video helped me tremendously. I like how detailed and clear you are.

[testtor]

Masking the channels is blocked for me.

[milosblagojevicc]

Saved me tons of time, also your explanation is top notch 👍

[ArtSurvivesArtist]

:54 My Mask after hitting the "Japanese Flag" is always white with a black background. I cannot figure out how to change it. If I invert the selection so it does have a black object with a white background then the channels are not correct at all. This really seems like I'm missing some steps. Everyone else who is thanking this video, please tell me what I'm doing wrong.

[victorias]

This is the best tutorial on how to smooth the edges! I needed to watch this. i am not a pro on photoshop. And, these steps are just amazingly easy and awesome to follow. Thank you tons!!!

[ooopsssdontdodat]

Hi, why is it when I click the "japanese flag" it just gives me blank white image. can anyone help?

[yenna]

thank you my image looks a lot better now :)

[njk]

Thank you so much. I had to smooth a big but really jagged logo and this helped tremendously.

[techliner]

I learn many things. Thanks a lot, tutorial man.

[orivxdevlabs]

Is there no way just to simply apply the alpha channel as a mask? The final step you did can get that result without any of the channel/blur work and none of that carries over with RGB enabled, and of course for a logo you can't have a transparent BG with just alpha enabled.

[miablazekovic]

Thank you shading your knowledge, it helped me a ton since I am only just a beginner :)

[seasonspix]

Awesome! Exactly what I needed and it worked great! Thank you so much!

[jaylordjl]

When going to channels thsn press the japanese logo icon, the selection of object is white then the entire area is black and yours was black for object and white for the square

[marcelomuniz]

The "japanese flag" is greyed to me, I can't select it.

[billtalker]

It won't let me click the Japanese flag

[vankuscarce]

5 years later and this still helped me, YOU'RE A LEGEND! The thing this video helped me for is this: I needed mockups of hoodies both black and white, I found the mockups great, but the white hoodie had white background which blended with the hoodie itself, so I had to adjust the brightness, levels, curves, exposure etc to make the outline of the hoodie possible at least so that the quick selection tool can pick it up. At the end it did.... Great but the edges are horrible and this hoodie is for an online clothing store so it has to be high quality at the edges, so I stumbled to your video and you fixed it. So again THANK YOU for that.

[crneymar]

finally a tutorial that isn't some indian guy using a version of photoshop from 1920. thank you