Smooth curves - how do I make them??

Lets say I make a small image with the pen tool, or the lasso...

This is a bad example, but here it is:
http://www.hward.com/images/jagged-edges.gif

And I want to make all those square points smooth, so it looks like one big fluid shape.

Is there anyway of obtaining this?

Thanks in advance for any help :D

Pen Tool.

lol yeah, pen tool.

We all know it can be a bitch to start learning to use it, but it won't take many hours of experimenting untill you see how it works. Do that.

EDIT: You made the westkoast site and you don't know how to use a pentool ? :eek:

I don't have problems working with vector shapes in macromedia...just photoshop....

At least illustrator has an option to smooth out your pen tool points...

You can cntrl- click on that shape in the layers panel to select it, then switch to the Channels panel, create a new channel (while still selected.) then fill with white.

Now deselect it and gaussian blur the object until the edges are all fuzzy and smoothed out. (this is all within the Channel.) Now cntrl-L (this is the short cut to the Levels dialogue.) Now slide the 2 faders into the middle. You will see the edge get crisp again. Once you get it to where there is no jaggies, then cntrl-click that layer to select it again, go back to the Layers Panel, create a new layer, choose your color and fill it.

Learn this technique well because I have found it one of the most useful. You can use it to give anything rounded corners, also you can take off jagged edges with it.

Hey, thanks a lot for taking the time to write those steps down.

I've always kinda stayed away from vector stuff in photoshop, now I can't avoi it any longer...thats why I started looking around for photoshop help, and ended up here

BTW: PaavoPerkele that grafitti tutorial on your site is really sweet

You have a nice site though.... I laughed at Paavo's comment because I didnt see the site until he mentioned it.... yeah, kind of surprised you didnt know the pen tool better. Its really almost the same as Illustrator.

Heehee, thanks.

My strenghts are actully the backend stuff. I've got a lot more experience with php, and mysql.

I'm glad I found this site though....looks like there are a lot of very talented people here that I can learn a lot from.