[CrashWick]

I have been trying to draw with my newly aquired wacom for a while. I mainly use photoshop... because i think it is better than painter. But there is at least one feature in painter that is way better than what photoshop does... it's the water tool.. it's fast and it's good. The best tool photoshop has for this is the smudge tool.. but its not nearly as good for getting smooth gradients and when I get my brush size >50 pixels it gets too slow to work with. I'm getting tired of switching photoshop and painter all the time. I want to ask you guys if there is any way to mimic the watertool in photoshop.

[Nex]

did you try the blur brush?
works better than smudge imho.

[Wyatt Turner]

select area and use motion blur at 90deg

y@

[CrashWick]

I tried the blur brush but it doesn't seem to do a whole lot and it's sloooow.. I get the impression that photoshop calculates the blur more accurately than painter does.. but I don't need that accurate blurs.. I just want it to be fast.