"Mickey Mouse" <mickey@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Thanks Ragnar, Selecting the smudge tool and selecting finger painting
> nearly does the trick.
> Unfortunately your required to use the eye dropper first, which is not
> neccessary in PSP.
> As you've probably guessed, I'm trying to switch to Photoshop CS3 from
> Paintsho Pro.
> It appears that PaintShop Pro really can do some things easier.
Obviously
> though in the long run
> Photoshop is better although I miss features in the other program.
>
> Mickey
>
>
> "Ragnar" <ragnar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>> Mickey Mouse wrote:
>>> Thanks guys for the replies, I found the smudge tool but it doesn't
>>> behave as I hoped. It appears to warp the image (like in liquify) as
>>> it smudges. What I'm after is purely smudge.
>>> Example: You have a white canvas and on it you dab a blob green paint
>>> and next to it you dab a blob of red paint. If you use a brush in
>>> the red paint and drag it over to the green paint you get a smug
>>> effect, and that what I'm after. Anyone familiar with paintshop pro
>>> will understand what I mean. I'm after a smudge without the warping or
>>> liquifying.
>>>
>>> Mickey
>>>
>>
>> With the Smudge Tool selected, tick the box 'finger painting'.
Experiment
>> with the Strength setting.
>>
>> If I understand you correctly, this will do what you want.
>>
>> HTH
Photoshop has MORE options than PSP on each tool
and each tool has more choices to customize it
you must learn to use the options not just the tool's defaults
and there is no need of using eye droppers if you selected properly it
will
smudge using the palette or images colors, in varying degrees of
smudginess
as you choose


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