Selecting A Cursor Preference - Adobe Photoshop CS6 User Manual

Opacity Sets the transparency of color you apply. As you paint over an area, the opacity does not exceed the set level no matter how many times
you move the pointer over the area, until you release the mouse button. If you stroke over the area again, you apply additional color, equivalent to
the set opacity. Opacity of 100 percent is opaque.
Flow Sets the rate at which color is applied as you move the pointer over an area. As you paint over an area, keeping the mouse button down,
the amount of color builds up based on the flow rate, up to the opacity setting. For example, if you set the opacity to 33% and the flow to 33%,
each time you move over an area, its color moves 33% toward the brush color. The total will not exceed 33% opacity unless you release the
mouse button and stroke over the area again.
Press a single number key to set a tool's opacity in multiples of 10% (pressing 1 sets it to 10%; pressing 0 sets it to 100%). Press two number
keys to set a specific opacity. To set Flow, press Shift and number keys.
Airbrush
Simulates painting with an airbrush. As you move the pointer over an area, paint builds up as you hold down the mouse button. Brush hardness,
opacity, and flow options control how fast and how much the paint is applied. Click the button to turn on or off this option.
Auto erase (Pencil tool only) Paints the background color over areas containing the foreground color. Select the foreground color you want to
erase and the background color you want to change to. (See Auto Erase with the Pencil tool.)
Tablet pressure buttons
Use stylus pressure to override opacity and size settings in the Brush panel.

Selecting a cursor preference

The painting tools have three possible cursors: the standard cursor (the icon from the toolbox), a cross hair
and shape of the currently selected brush tip.
1. Choose Edit > Preferences > Cursors (Windows) or Photoshop > Preferences > Cursors (Mac OS).
2. Select the desired cursors in both the Painting Cursors area and the Other Cursors area. The sample cursors change to reflect your choices.
For a Brush Tip cursor, choose a size and whether to include a cross hair in the cursor.
Normal Brush Tip restricts the cursor size to areas of the brush stroke that have 50% or more opacity.
Full Size Brush Tip sizes the cursor to the entire area affected by the brush stroke. For soft brushes, this produces a larger cursor size
than the Normal setting, to include the areas of the brush stroke with lighter opacity.
To combine different types of cursors, select Show Crosshair in Brush Tip or Show Only Crosshair While Painting. Or, for the Pen and Brush
tools, press the Caps Lock to toggle between the standard cursor and the cross hair.
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