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

[elainealibrandi]

Thanks so much! I love how you explain the "why" rather than only the "how."

[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 🎉

[balamina]

Very useful tutorial! Thank you for the tips too! Good luck Brendan!

[cheska]

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

[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

[krishchandran]

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

[sonjon]

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

[waldemargolebiewski]

... or you can silo the subject manually with path tools or brushes in the time its taking to use this process. When this first functionality became available I was excited and really tried all these workflows to save time. It turned out that in many cases it took longer to make all these adjustments than using paths or brushing a mask manually.

[djzwansalot]

Wow, fantastic tutorial! Easily explained as well. Tnx!

[timmytee]

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

[michaelporter]

Thank you. Helpful.
However....Shift key does not do for me what it is doing for you to "chain" repair edges.
Shift appears to not affect the selection action at all.
Prob something in my setup?
But still a very helpful video. Thanks a lot.

[annebrooks]

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!

[incredibleParikrama]

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

[Nesta-xu]

dude, tf do I need college for when bro got us covered

[KaterynaM_UA]

it works for one big object but when you have dozens on them masking every single one of them doesn't make sense....

[danielwilson]

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