Paint Daubs simulates touching the canvas with a brush, causing pixels to be averaged, and creating a painted effect. Its parameters include brush size, sharpness, and brush type. Brush types can be simple, light rough, dark rough, wide sharp, wide blurry, and sparkle.

Paint Daubs works on 8 Bit, RGB, grayscale, and Multichannel images, and Smart Objects. This filter is part of the Filter Gallery, and launches another window with options.

Paint Daubs is part of Adobe Photoshop’s Extended Filters.

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