Making choppy edges smooth on camouflage?

[steep]

I've been trying to make a large swatch of camo that I could have printed on to apparel. I started with a scanned in picture of camo that I found online (nothing else I could find was large enough) and made selections with the lasso and magnetic lasso. At full size the the edges look really choppy. Since I'm planning on printing these at full size on apparel I need to make the edges of the camo look more fluid.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

 

[SeniorS]

Fastest way is Filter/Blur/Gaussian Blur... slide the slider to get needed result, if that what you want.

 

[steep]

Thanks for the reply.

I've tried using the gaussian blur followed by adjusting the levels to make it smooth, but it also shrinks the selection a bit, so I'm left with transparency around the edges of the selection. I'd like the selection to look crisp and smooth.

Is there a way I can make the selection a little bit larger and more crisp without it being choppy?

 

[Hoogle]

if i was you I would select each patch using magic wand add to selection so all for example black 1s were selected. then go to select> modify > expand by 2- 3 pixels then select the colour and paint over the selection with a matching colour

 

[SeniorS]

And why not to blur whole image?
Or do as Hoogleman said about expanding selection but about 4-6 and give feather to that selection about 2-3 and fill it with needed color.
For fasten up process use Select/Color Range to select colors. Or magic wand with unchecked Contigues.

 

[$1r_M4x1mu$]

Hi steep

Welcome to PhotoShop Gurus

Actually, there's a free PS plugin, that creates those cammo patterns, so you don't need to scan anything, you can create your document, any size you need, and just fill it whit the pattern, this plugin will allow you to choose the size, color, blur level,etc.

I think this is just the right tool you'll need, and the only tricky part that you have to remember, is that you have to create the document a the same size, that it will be printed, other ways, if you are going to re size the image, it will result, in an unavoidable pixelated image.

Here: Camouflage - Generate realistic camouflage patterns in Photoshop.

Hope this helps.

 

[steep]

Hmmm, is there something similar to that for macs? I looked around on the site and couldn't find anything mac related...

Thanks, though that looks like an awesome plug in.

 

[$1r_M4x1mu$]

Hmmm, is there something similar to that for macs? I looked around on the site and couldn't find anything mac related...

Thanks, though that looks like an awesome plug in.

Your welcome, i didn't know you were using a MAC, sad, don't really know much on MAC's software.