# Snoothing Edges

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/snoothing-edges/52878>\
**Category:** design\
**Created:** [May 28, 2004, 7:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/snoothing-edges/52878 "2004-05-28T07:50:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![minimalistik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@minimalistik](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/minimalistik)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 7:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/snoothing-edges/52878/1 "2004-05-28T07:50:20Z")

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APDesign said:

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ctrl+click the layer you want to [color=black]smooth [/color]to get its selection. Go into the channels, save selection as channel. Deselect if anything is selected, then do a gaussian blur or two (I did 2pixels then 1 pixel, I think, but you can play around here.) once you do that, go to brightness contrast and boost the contrast until you have a nice smooth anti-alias that doesn’t look like a feather (I used mid-eighties here). You can also do what .soulty said and use levels (ctrl+l) here, whatever you are more comfortable with. Now ctrl+click the alpha channel, go back to your layers, and fill.

he says “go back to the layers, and fill” so I click the layers tab and then \*\*fill? \*\*What/where do i go for fill?