Painting Tools; To Use The Brush Tool Or Pencil Tool; Chapter 17: Painting - Adobe PHOTOSHOP CS2 User Manual

Chapter 17: Painting

Painting tools

Painting
The painting tools change the color of pixels in an image. The Brush tool and the Pencil tool work like traditional
drawing tools by applying color with brush strokes. The Gradient tool, Fill command, and Paint Bucket tool apply
color to large areas. Tools like the Eraser tool, Blur tool, and Smudge tool modify the existing colors in the image.
The power of painting in Photoshop is in the options that you can set to specify how a tool applies or modifies color.
You can apply color gradually, with soft edges, with large brush strokes, with various brush dynamics, with different
blending properties, and with brushes of different shapes. You can simulate spraying paint with an airbrush.
You set tool options from the options bar. The options bar for the brush tool contains other palettes and menus of
options:
Stores saved brush tip settings, such as brush size, hardness, and airbrush, and the brush
Brush Presets picker
options available in the Brushes palette.
Tool Presets picker Stores saved settings of a brush tip preset, other options from the options bar such as opacity or
blending mode, and paint color.
Contains numerous options for setting brush painting characteristics, such as color dynamics,
Brushes palette
brush shape dynamics, texture, and paint scattering. The Brushes palette also contains a panel from which you can
choose a brush tip preset.

To use the Brush tool or Pencil tool

The Brush tool and the Pencil tool paint the current foreground color on an image. The Brush tool creates soft strokes
of color. The Pencil tool creates hard-edged lines.
1 Choose a foreground color. (See "To choose colors in the toolbox" on page 504.)
Select the Brush tool
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3 Set tool options in the options bar:
Choose a brush from the Brush Presets picker, and set brush options. (See "To select a preset brush" on page 473.)
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Choose a blending mode from the Mode menu. (See "List of blending modes" on page 487.)
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• Specify an opacity by dragging the Opacity slider. Opacity specifies the amount of paint coverage applied by each
stroke.
For the Brush tool, specify a flow rate by dragging the Flow slider. Flow specifies how quickly paint is applied.
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Press a number key to set a tool's opacity in multiples of 10% (pressing 1 sets to 10%; pressing 0 sets to 100%). Use
Shift and number key to set Flow.
or Pencil tool .
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