Introduce a "Smooth Vectors" Tool to Photoshop

Hi,
Designers find the "Smooth Tool" extremely useful in Illustrator, which is very powerful and helps a lot with the designs.
It would be very helpful if Adobe implemented that tool as well to the vectors' abilities in Photoshop.
Currently the only viable solutions in Photoshop are very lacking (like using blur filters to smooth images made by vectors and then recreating the vectors).
Thanks!
* (The Photoshop feature request forum is locked for some reason...)

I am just a humble student of Illustrator, but loving the learning process, and constantly bowled over by tools I never dreamt it had. The ability to simplify a path made over complex by using Image Trace on a busy outline, is super cool. Trace is just one of those things that surprised the bejazus out of me!
So with that in mind, what could you do with Photoshop? I guess you could fill the path, rasterise it, select and Smooth the selection, and make the smoothed selection back into a Workpath. But that sounds — not so much clunky — more lacking finesse, and likely to way over simplify the path. You’d lose all sharp corners for a start off.
So I just tend to work my way round with the pen tool, and remove superfluous points. Making a type layer into a shape is a good case in point. I think a lot of fonts must be hand drawn before making into shapes and then fonts, because you find the most unlikely of line directions, tapers, flattened curves etc.
What I have not learned yet regards Illustrator, is how to swap objects between it and Photoshop. I’m assuming it can’t be hard? Heck, it is super easy moving between Premiere Pro, and the other video apps.

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Ollep wrote:
> Thank SnakEye!!!
>
> I'm getting right back to illustrator now!!
>
>
> Olle...
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http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/using-text-tool-freezes-photoshop-cc -2014-2-0-20140926-r-236-x64-release/replies/14873829

Check out this other thread I started
http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/using-text-tool-freezes-photoshop-cc -2014-2-0-20140926-r-236-x64-release?utm_source=notification&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign =new_reply&utm_content=reply_button&reply[id]=14914157#reply_14914157
There it's help there. I've not totally solved my problem but others seemed to have.
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Can you blur vector shapes in Photoshop without rasterizing?

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In the layer of interest make sure the vector mask is selected. Then in the Masks panel adjust the feather slider to an amount that looks right.
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Can't find 3d tool in photoshop cs6 extented?

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I'm not sure if this is a Photoshop problem or an OSX problem. I have posted on the Adobe site, but there was only one response and that didn't tell me much. And then I thought: it might actually be an OSX problem.
When using the clone tool in Photoshop CS, after an hour or so, under circumstances that I have not been able to replicate, PS starts to activate F9 on a continuing basis. Sometimes only once (all open windows appear separated); sometimes twice in quick succession; sometimes three or four times. The effect is exactly the same as pressing F9 1, 2, 3 or 4 times every couple of minutes.
I get around the problem by shutting all other windows (then the PS window I'm working in doesn't get changed - I just click on it to bring it back if it has been F9ed); or if the F9s get too annoying I shut down PS and start again.
Is this activation of F9 likely to be:
* a PS bug (somehow it is activating F9)?; or
* an OSX bug (PS does something and OSX triggers F9)?
I have not had the problem occur anytime except cloning in PS. I doubt it has anything to do with Expose (as the PS poster thought) because I do not use Expose.
The problem appears to me to be almost random. It might be in my particular setup, but I suspect that PS and/or OSX are going slightly haywire in a very esoteric way under certain vague circumstances. How's that for a non-specific description of the behaviour

This is an issue seen from time to time with Photoshop. The Photoshop team has said they're going to take another look at it, over on the Photoshop bugfix / feature request forum (http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/_adobe_community_help_keeps_popping_ open).
Not everyone sees this, so take heart, it can work well.
One source of random corruption seen with Photoshop can be from buggy display drivers. OpenGL implementations in display drivers are changing to this very minute.
You can try disabling OpenGL Drawing for a while, do some editing and watch to see if it still happens. You'd do this via Edit - Preference - Performance, and remember to restart Photoshop after making the change and before testing.
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I seem to be having a problem using the Magnetic Lasso Tool In Photoshop CS3 Extended as when I get half way around an egales beak zoomed in at 66.67% and start to single click around the tight corners the photo is covered over with a white background and the palettes to the right of the Photo e.g. layers, channels, paths becomes white to and all you can see is the paths that the Magnetic Lasso Tool has made around the beak until you click any key on the keyboard but the annoying thing about doing that is that the path automatically becomes selected there for I am unable to draw the paths around the rest of the beak does anyone know of a patch of some kind that will correct this error?
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Is there an official word on this from Adobe? Or better yet, a solution?
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Look at your selection options in the tool options bar for the lasso tool.
Sounds like cc is set to Add and cc2014 is set to New
You could just keep the option on new and use the shift key to add to the selection.
more info:
Photoshop Help | Selecting with the lasso tools
Photoshop Help | Default keyboard shortcuts

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Friends:
Where can I find the equivalent tools in Photoshop that are in the develop module of Lightroom? For example I would like to use the shadow, clarity, lens correction and such tools but cannot find them in Photoshop.
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Migs

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