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+  "audio_file": "99%20-%20Selection%20Modifiers%20in%20Photoshop.wav",
+  "text": "All right, in this video, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna talk about selection modification. And we're gonna use that to clean up our edges here on our robot sticker. So what I wanna do with the current selection made, so in this case, I have the background selected, I wanna basically clean up the edges of our robot sticker here. So I'm gonna go up to select, and then we're gonna go down to modify. And I got a couple options here, and we're gonna use two of them. We're going to use the expand and then we're going to use smooth. So first I'm going to do an expansion. So what this does is it pulls up a little dialog box here that asks me how do I want to expand my selection. And what it's going to do when I do this is it's basically going to take the current selection and push its way into areas that are unselected. So typically I'll do this by selecting out the background like I did. And the reason why I love the die cut sticker prompt in mid-journey is because it gives me a little bit of this border to work with. And so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna expand the selection, I'm gonna expand it to about five pixels, and we're gonna hit okay. Now before I hit okay, what I want you to do is pick a point on the edge here and watch this bump in a little bit. So I'm gonna look at up by the antenna here. And as I hit okay, what I'm gonna notice is that the selection will cut into this gray border a bit. We'll hit OK. And so there you go. You can see that it moved its way into the interior of the border there. Now if I hit delete, you're gonna notice that the background's deleted and that's almost good enough. Let's go ahead and do an undo. And I'm gonna do one more undo to undo the selection modifier I did. So it went back to the original selection. We're going to go back up to Select, Modify. We'll do another expand. This time I'm going to do a smaller one. We'll do a two. And what I want to do now is I want to smooth out the selection. It actually doesn't look too bad. Let's find a point here that I can focus on. Let me get right in here. This is good. By the here is a good example And what I want to do is you can see here that it pops it kind of comes around and Does kind of like this jaguiness this jaguiness in the selection So the other tool I'm going to run is select modify and smooth And we're going to smooth this out by three pixels and what I want is the selection to smooth out along the shoulder and the neck here. We'll do that by three pixels. You can see here it just rounded the edge a little bit. Some of the jaggedness is still there but looks pretty good overall. So we cut in to the selection and then we smooth it out. Zoom out and then we're going to hit delete. So that deleted the background which is good but now I can't really see what I'm doing because that gray border on the robot is kind of not in much contrast to the transparent layer that Photoshop shows. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to add a new layer, and I click and drag that underneath the robot layer, and then select black. And we're just going to do a giant black background just to take a look and see how we're doing. Oops. Undo that, and I'm going to click deselect. All right, then do the painting. Not super happy with that selection, so let's go ahead and undo, well, everything we just did, and we'll give this one more go. So I'm just using Ctrl Z, Ctrl Z, and we're undoing, and we're gonna try this one more time. Go up to select, go to modify, go to expand, let's go by two, and then we'll smooth it out again. And this time I'm gonna try a bigger smooth, I'm gonna try five. And then we'll hit delete, and then we'll deselect and draw the background. All right, pretty good. And then the next video we're just gonna take this home with the modification to the layer itself. I'll see you there.",
+  "language": "en",
+  "duration": 242.18,
+  "timestamp": "2026-01-19T18:28:14.121257"
+}