Using the Smart Brush Tool to Select and Fix at the Same Time
Photoshop Elements includes a brush tool that lets you fix problem areas (as well as create some pretty cool effects) with just a brush stroke. It’s called the Smart Brush tool, and it helps keep you from making complicated selections and then having to fix them in a separate step. Instead, you choose which effect you want to apply and just brush away. Let’s check it out.
Step One:
Open a photo that has an area you want to enhance or fix. There’s actually a huge list of things you can do with this brush, but let’s concentrate on one area for now—the sky. A big digital image problem is that the sky never seems to look as vibrant and dramatic as it does when we’re there photographing ...
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