Summary:
You are likely to come across many situations where you will have a selected areas that has crooked turns or corners in them. One of the best ways to get rid of these corners is to use the Smooth feature. The Smooth feature also works great with the Polygonal lasso tool when it comes to make very quick shapes that you would otherwise not want to spend a lot of time creating with other tools, such as the Pen Tool. In this tutorial, we’ll work with the Polygonal Lasso and the Smooth feature to create a simple smooth selection.
Step-By-Step Instructions:
1. Goto File > New. Open a New Document in Photoshop.
2. When the “New” pop-up appears, set the Width/Height dimensions to 400×400.
3. Select the Polygonal Lasso tool.
4. Create a selection shape by clicking around on the canvas. For the purpose of this tutorial, I’ll simply create the letter “E”.
5. Goto Select > Modify > Smooth.
6. Choose a pixel amount for the Sample Radius, then click OK.
7. You should now have your smoothed out selection.
8. Below, I used the Paint Bucket tool to fill the selection with a simple color.
