Smudge Stick simulates a tortillon smudging the image using parameters for stroke length, highlight area, and intensity.

Smudge Stick 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.

Smudge Stick is part of Adobe Photoshop’s Extended Filters.

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