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A super easy tutorial on how to blend in Photoshop using a tool similar to Paint Tool SAI's water tool!

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Apologies for my awkward penguin-ness and all that white noise xc

Play around with different brushes and settings to get the desired look you like.

NOTE: This is not the ONLY way to blend in Photoshop. There are brushes and other brush settings one can use to blend with. In fact, a combination of blending brushes and this tool is great!

**This is PERFECT for mouse artists who can't use pressure sensitivity or special blending brushes (made just for tablet users)!
**This method works just fine with tablets as well

This isn't me putting down SAI at all, just showing a way where you can blend in Photoshop like you can in SAI.

This tutorial /should/ work for PS 7+.

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Video ID 260
Youtube URL Tutorial: Blending in Photoshop ("Water Tool")
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Created 2017-05-04 1:00:44 PM
Updated 2017-05-04 1:13:07 PM

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Hey ya'll, it's Sam. I'm gonna be talking
about blending with Photoshop. This particular

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version of Photoshop is CS6 but it can work
with version 7 and up. This blending technique

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is similar to Paint Tool SAI's "water tool".
If you aren't familiar with Paint Tool SAI,

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this is Paint Tool SAI. I just slapped down
some colors with the pen tool. The water tool

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is excellent for blending. You can see how
wonderful the colors transition into each

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other. And it's not really a tool that Photoshop
has. So we need to find our own replacement.

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And that would be the smudge tool. Now just
using the tool by itself, you can see, yeah,

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it's not that great for blending. It kind
of just pushes the colors around and it's

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just really ugly. You don't want to use that
for painting. What you want to do is go over

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to it's brush settings and set it to scattering.
A percentage between 30 and 50 is pretty good

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for it. And you can see how it's so much better
with blending. It's really close to the water

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tool and it just makes painting so much easier
and a lot better in Photoshop. And that's

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pretty much it. This is just one way to blend
in Photoshop. It's really helpful for those

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who don't have a tablet. So yeah, that's pretty
much it. It's a pretty simple tutorial, but

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it does a lot, it's very effective. I hope
you enjoyed watching it. I'm not an expert

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in Paint Tool SAI or Photoshop but if you
have any questions, feel free to leave them

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down below.

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