Smoothness of brushes

[Sunny]

all of a sudden my brushes are no longer smooth on the edges, I have checked the settings and the jitter is turn off.........i did an uninstall PS and installed it back and it's still the same problem.   I don't know what to do next .  I tried all the other brushes as well and turned jittering off and still same issues.  Also I turned off the pen pressure for the opacity and it still uses the pressure of the pen......

[Damien Symonds]

On mine, "Shape Dynamics" is turned off, and "Smoothing" is turned on.  I don't know if that helps.

[Sunny]

tried that also and it doesn't work

 

[Damien Symonds]

30 minutes ago, Sunny said:

What you've shown me here looks perfectly normal.  I'm not sure what you're worried about.

[Sunny]

it use t be the edges were smoother, so now when i try to mask and get close to edges, it leaves a rough looking edge, before it was really smooth  now im having a tough time masking bc if i get too close to the edge it doesn't mask properly

[Damien Symonds]

What the hell???  You NEVER use a hard-edge brush for masking, EVER.

[Sunny]

i don't lol, i just turned on the hard edge so you can see the edges, even when i put it on 20 % you can still tell  and if i put it lower than that it show the bottom layer (i sure hope im explainin  it clearly

 

 

[Damien Symonds]

You're really really not.

Masking is done with Hardness at 0%.  Always.

[Sunny]

wait....it just  went back to normal.......I was trying to do a screen shot to show you and the brush is normal..ugh!!  frustrating bc i don't know how to fix it if it does it again.

 

[Sunny]

so if it's done at 0, how would i blend the background to where it does't brush off the top layer?  ill post a pic of what im tring to do.....eeeks.  don't butcher me. lol

[Sunny]

Im trying to extend the rug so i copied from the other side and trying to mask off where the little girls leg is, when i do it at 0% the brush is too soft and blend into the leg......

[Damien Symonds]

I zoom in to about 400% and use a 6px brush (soft!) for this.  And the Shift key.

I can't stress this enough. NEVER use Hardness higher than 0%.

[Sunny]

oooo, ok,  never thought about the shift key for limbs and such, i use the shift key for stuff with straight straight lines..  i will try that, thanks!!