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Chapter 12: Painting
Painting overview
About painting
The Standard Edit workspace in Photoshop Elements provides a variety of tools for applying and editing color. When
you select a painting tool, the option bar displays a variety of preset brush tips and settings for brush size, paint
blending, opacity, and airbrush effects. You can create new brush presets and save them in brush libraries. You can
customize the brush and settings for any of the painting and editing tools and manage them using the Preset
Manager.
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Brush options in options bar.
A. Brush pop-up palette and brush thumbnail B. Brush size pop-up slider and text box C. Palette menu button
The Brush tool paints smooth, antialiased lines. (See "To use the Brush tool" on page 225.) Other painting tools
include the Pencil tool for making hard edged lines and the eraser tools for applying the background color or erasing
color pixels on layers. The Paint Bucket tool and Fill command fill areas of your image with color or patterns. (See
"To use the Paint Bucket tool" on page 235.) The Pattern Stamp tool paints with one of the predefined patterns or a
pattern that you design. (See "To use the Pattern Stamp tool" on page 237.)
The Impressionist Brush tool affects existing color by applying stylized brush strokes. (See "To use the Impressionist
Brush tool" on page 226.) The Smudge tool also affects existing image colors by simulating the action of dragging a
finger through wet paint. (See "To use the Smudge tool" on page 227.)
About foreground and background colors
You apply the foreground color when you paint with the Brush or Pencil tools, and when you fill selections with the
Paint Bucket tool. The color you apply to the Background layer with the Eraser tool is called the background color.
You can see and change the foreground and background colors in the two overlapping boxes at the bottom of the
toolbox. The top box is the foreground color, and the bottom box is the background color. The foreground and
background colors are also used together by the Gradient tool and some special effects filters.
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