Blur, Sharpen and Smudge Tool in Photoshop

In the session of photoshop we will see blur tool, sharpen tool and smudge tool.

How and where these tools are used.

blur tool.

If you want to Blur any part of image Then this is used.

If you want increase or decrease the radius of brush Then the same shortcut, Press shortcut key.

You can increase or decrease the Radius from it.

Even you can increase or decrease the size from here as well.

I will decrease the size and zoom in.

 here Above you can see option strength Is given

Strength is 50% For now.

If you want to increase the strength of blur, You can increase from here, If you want to decrease, You can decrease from here as well.

Let's keep it 80% for now.

And let’s starting rubbing From this tool.

See your image is getting blurred slowly.

If you feel the strength is yet low, you can increase again and rub.

As much you will rub, the image will Keep getting Blur, see this much part is blurred and this much is clearly visible.

In photoshop you have seen various types of tools.

Ok? PhotoShop has One more very good tool.

After blur this tool comes.

we will Call this sharpen tool.

What is sharpen tool useful for ?

Sharpen tool usually used in bright pictures.

 For ex; i have opened a picture here of jewelry.

We Will use sharpen tool on Such images.

Hear this jewelry which is shown.

I want to make this jewelry look very sharp In this picture ok?

So I will use sharpen tool.

We have taken sharpen tool from here.

Let's increase the sharpening brush.

picture zoom in ok?

The jewelry which you can see here, you have to rub according to it. Let’s adjust it by making it smaller.

See I am rubbing here. You are able to see that jewelry is getting sharp

if you want to compare. See this part of Jewelry and See this part ok?

This one looks very sharp and clear.

So This is the work of our Sharpen tool .

But this can work only on Such images.

If you will try to sharpen on normal image, image will get damage.

You understand the use of tools given in Photoshop, but Where to use it? Is also an important question.

So such things are always Should be kept in mind.

That which tool is used where, when and how.

So in this way, we can Sharp jewelry or any such Bright things.

After the sharpen tool, photoshop has one more important tool, which we will call as smudge tool.

Now what does a smudge tool do?

In your image, if you want slightly move any object from its original position so this tool is useful.

As You can see in this image, the eyebrows are little thick and we want to make it thinner.

So for that we will use a smudge tool.

See taken brush tool from here.

let’s decrease the size of its brush.

then i will start moving it from up to down.

See hold it and move downwards. 

In this way you can bring that into shape.

See the difference in both the eyebrows.

So we will move it from below as well. In this way

So this is the use of our smudge tool.

You can make little adjustments with the help of smudge tool.

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