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This document was created by an unregistered ChmMagic, please go to http://www.bisenter.com to register it. ThanksSmudgesSmudge is the artist's term for blending two or more colors. In Photoshop, there are, naturally, several ways of smudging. There areseveral ways of doing virtually anything in Photoshop. Be that as it may, using the Smudge tool is the most obvious and the quickest wayto blend something into its background.Using the Smudge ToolThe Smudge tool looks like, and works like, a finger. It's in the same toolbox compartment with the Blur and Sharpen tools. The Smudgetool picks up color from wherever you start to drag it and moves it in the direction in which you drag. Honestly, nothing could be muchsimpler. You do, however, have to use the Tool Options bar's Strength field to set the pressure of your smudging finger. At 100%, thefinger simply wipes away the paint. At 50%, it smears it. At 25%, the smear is less pronounced. Figure 9.1 shows these different smearsettings. Photoshop considers the Smudge tool to be a brush, so you can set the width of the finger by choosing an appropriate brush sizefrom the Brush menu.Figure 9.1. Smudges at different Strength settings.You can also use the Smudge tool to mimic finger painting. This option starts each stroke with the foreground color. You'll find it quite