How to manipulate slice cut effects in Photoshop | Photoshop tips and tricks

The slice tool ✨ This ceramic blade will make your life easier as a colored pencil artist. You can use this tool for highlights and whiskers but also for creating a nice pattern and texture. How it works: By gently pulling the blade over your drawing, it will lift off certain amounts of the pigment and leave marks. What is important? Make sure you build up enough layers with your colored pencil pigment before using the slice tool. Otherwise it won’t work. Also I’ve found that it works best on pa