Painting Overview - Adobe 29180155 - Photoshop Elements 4.0 Tutorial

Painting overview

About painting tools
About foreground and background colors
About blending modes
Web-safe colors
About painting tools
Photoshop Elements provides various tools for applying and editing color. When you select a painting tool, the Tool Options bar displays various
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.
Brush options in the Tool Options bar
A. Brush size slider and text box B. Brush pop-up panel and brush thumbnail C. More menu
The Brush tool paints smooth, anti-aliased lines. Other painting tools include the Pencil tool for making hard-edged lines and the Eraser tool for
erasing color pixels from layers. The Paint Bucket tool and Fill command fill areas of your image with color or patterns. The pattern Stamp tool
paints with one of the predefined patterns or a pattern that you design.
The Impressionist Brush tool affects existing color by applying stylized brush strokes. The Smudge tool also affects existing image colors by
simulating the action of dragging a finger through wet paint.
The Detail Smart Brush tool automatically creates an adjustment layer as you paint. It doesn't alter the original image layer. You can paint and
change the adjustments as many times as you want without degrading your original photo. See
tools.
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.
Foreground and background color boxes in toolbox
A. Foreground color box B. Click to use default colors (black and white) C. Click to switch the foreground and background colors D.
Background color box
You can change the foreground or background color in the toolbox by using the Eyedropper tool, the Color Swatches panel, or the Color Picker.
Adjust color and tonality using the Smart Brush
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