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February 5, 2018
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How to get edges smooth in Ps?

  • February 5, 2018
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Hi,

I can seem to get my edges smooth.  Can you help with this?

Ken

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melissapiccone
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February 6, 2018

Are you using the newest version of Photoshop? Try using the select subject tool. With the magic wand or the quick selection selected, the button will be at the top of your screen in the options bar. You might have to do a tiny bit of cleanup in select and mask, but it does a great job.

Melissa Piccone | Adobe Trainer | Online Courses Author | Fine Artist
melissapiccone
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Community Expert
February 5, 2018

What edges? Are you painting with a brush? What are you trying to do? We need a screenshot and more information to help you.

Melissa Piccone | Adobe Trainer | Online Courses Author | Fine Artist
Participant
February 5, 2018

Hi

I'm simply trying to get white background with my images but the edges come out crappy and ugly.  You see at the top

Community Expert
February 5, 2018

Hi kenyonm,

Your issue is more to do with the selection than the smoothness. What have you been using to select the area to delete?

My suggestion is to use a combination of selection tools:

  • Quick Selection tool
    To select your object. However, if the edges blend into the background, you could run into problems like what you have. You could then remove from the selection using other tools.

  • Magnetic Lasso tool
    Manual selection by drawing points.

  • Selection brush
    Selects areas by drawing with a brush. You can adjust the size of the brush.

See details on all tools at: Photoshop Elements Help | Use tools to make selections

Chuck Uebele
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 5, 2018

Can you post a screen shot? PS has pixel edges and not vector edges, so there will be some jagging which is minimized by anti-aliasing.

Abambo
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 5, 2018

Do you mean this effect?

  • Make your selection
  • Select->Modify->Feather: Enter a corresponding number of pixels and
  • create your mask / copy paste to a new layer etc.
ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer