hi this is Jamie from digital I am calm
I was just playing around with some
brushes today someone was talking me on
YouTube about the smudge tools and stuff
and I thought I'd just play around with
some stuff and I kind of figured this
out um essentially what this is is if
you've ever used painter you might have
used the just dead water tool it's quite
popular for blending and yeah that kind
of a tool doesn't really exist in
Photoshop well I thought it didn't
really exist in Photoshop until today so
I'm gonna show you how to make the just
add water tool in Photoshop now some of
you may already know this and I might be
behind the times but I'm just gonna show
that this for people who don't know like
me so I'm just gonna put some colors
down real quick
and I'm gonna pull out this much tool
now normally this much tool doesn't have
any of this turned on and so what it
normally does is just move the paint
around it's not really a very useful
tool I don't use it and I don't know
many other people that do either for
painting or photo editing or anything
it's just kind of nasty I mean it
doesn't really serve much purpose so
what you need to do is you need to open
up the brush palette here and turn on
scattering and we'll just hide that and
now you'll see that it blends our colors
and for anyone who's used painter and
didn't know about this right now you
should be pretty happy because um yeah
that's a really useful tool now I mean
normally what you're gonna want to do is
you you're gonna want to pick up your
colors and blend them like you normally
would do but if you just want to smooth
out something you know or make something
really soft or you're trying to get some
really really smooth gradients happening
then it really can be quite a useful
tool or if you're just blocking in some
values and you're just scribbling them
in and you just want to you know files
them out a bit um again a really good
tool so another thing you can do is you
can turn on other dynamics which will
set this strength jitter to pen pressure
which is really good and shape dynamics
and I usually for this I've sort of
figured out about halfway is good
because you don't really need too much
fine detail so now if I go back and do
it with the pen pressure on it's not a
strong and effect you know you can
really sort of
put it down how you want and blend
smoothly and yeah it I don't know it
seems to work pretty well so I'm pretty
happy about this not that I just share
it with you guys so yeah um check out
digital out front calm and stay tuned
for more videos thanks guys bye