How to Make Smooth Edges in Photoshop in 5 Minutes

Steps:
1. Ctrl + Click thumbnail of desired object
2. Channels tab (windows ->channels)
3. click new mask (at the bottom. "Japanese flag"
4. Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur (blur rough edges)
5. Image -> adjustments -> levels -> Adjust to make sharp
6. Ctrl + Click mask thumbnail
7. Select original layer
8. If selection area is smaller -> leave as is, or select -> modify -> contract -> contract by 1 or more pixels
If selection is bigger -> select -> modify -> contract -> contract by 1 or more pixels
9. Selection tool -> right click -> select inverse - delete
10. magic

thank you sure good job❤

Saved me tons of time, also your explanation is top notch 👍

4 Years later, I still come back here every time I need to smooth something in Photoshop XD

"The little Japanese flag" made me laugh

thanks was very helpful

My God! Thank you, but what a pain in the A$$... Why doesn't Photoshop just do a better job to start with? And now Lightroom can do Hair, but it completely noises up and distorts edges...

Is there no way just to simply apply the alpha channel as a mask? The final step you did can get that result without any of the channel/blur work and none of that carries over with RGB enabled, and of course for a logo you can't have a transparent BG with just alpha enabled.

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thanks it works

thank you

why would you first do all that smoothing and then Contract by 2 pixels. Shouldn't you do the Contract part first and then do the smoothing? If you smoothen first and then contract it, you kinda eliminate what you smoothened before, no?

:54 My Mask after hitting the "Japanese Flag" is always white with a black background. I cannot figure out how to change it. If I invert the selection so it does have a black object with a white background then the channels are not correct at all. This really seems like I'm missing some steps. Everyone else who is thanking this video, please tell me what I'm doing wrong.

nice

"Little Japanese Flag" lmfaoo, but thanks for this ♥

this one is the best one amongst the other tutorials. thank you!

Awesome!!!!!!!

thanks

Thank you so much! 💯

You helped me fix a music video title card , thanks 🫡

Ok but what are the directions for a mac

Thank you. Very helpful

Great help... thank you

Respect!

That's an incredibly long process to achieve these results.

me watching this knowing that ill never afford photoshop

AWESOME!

nothing changes when i go to levels and move the sliders? HELP!!

good method.. thank you! subscribed!

When I select Gaussian blur, the preview window is just all black. I've rewatched this 10 times, what am I missing?

Thanks!

ctrl click does not work on mac apparently

amazing tutorial. Thank you a lot

does this work on faces tho

When going to channels thsn press the japanese logo icon , the selection of object is white then the entire area is black and yours was black for object and white for the square

can it really not be made easier ?????

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That little Japanese Flag though AHAAHAAH

Thank you for your video, really useful to finalize my project and it looks perfect ;)

Thank you!

Thank you so much for this simple tutorial!

Hm the bottom still looks rough because the other edges are smooth with that image i'd jus use the lasso tool and manually erase.

its not letting me select the little japan sign. help please?

Thank you!!

I managed to do 1 image but when I went to the same for another image in the same project kept getting an error

Thank you so much for the tutorial! Kudos mate!

Super super helpful!

Huge tutorial in short time....perfect little flag :)

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