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Painting
Using the painting tools (Photoshop)
Photoshop provides the brush tool and the pencil tool to let you paint with the current
foreground color. By default, the brush tool creates soft strokes of color and the pencil tool
creates hard-edged, freehand lines. However, you can change these default characteristics
by resetting the tool's brush options. You can also use the brush tool as an airbrush to
apply sprays of color to an image.
To use the brush tool or pencil tool:
1 Specify a foreground color. (See
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257.)
2 Select the brush tool
3 Do the following in the options bar:
Choose a brush and set brush options. (See
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Specify a blending mode. (See
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Specify an opacity. (See
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For the brush tool, specify a flow rate. (See
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exposure" on page
243.)
Click the airbrush button
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Airbrush option in the Brushes palette. (See
page
239.)
For the pencil tool, select Auto Erase to paint the background color over areas
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containing the foreground color. (See
4 Do one or more of the following:
Drag in the image to paint.
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To draw a straight line, click a starting point in the image. Then hold down Shift, and
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click an ending point.
When using the brush tool as an airbrush, hold down the mouse button without
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dragging to build up color.
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"Choosing foreground and background colors" on
or pencil tool
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"Working with brushes" on page
"Selecting a blending mode" on page
"Specifying opacity, flow, strength, or exposure" on page
"Specifying opacity, flow, strength, or
to use the brush as an airbrush. Alternately, select the
"Creating airbrush effects (Photoshop)" on
"Using the Auto Erase option" on page
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