Using The Painting Tools - Adobe PHOTOSHOP 5.0 User Manual

Chapter 9: Painting
T
he painting tools and fill commands let you
change the color of pixels to modify and
create colored areas in an image.

Using the painting tools

When using the painting tools, consider the
painting effects you want:
The paintbrush tool ( ) creates soft strokes of
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color.
The airbrush tool ( ) applies gradual tones
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(including sprays of color) to an image, simulating
traditional airbrush techniques. The edges of the
stroke are more diffused than those created with
the paintbrush tool. The pressure setting for the
airbrush tool controls how quickly the spray of
paint is applied. If you hold down the mouse
button without dragging, you can build up color.
The pencil tool ( ) creates hard-edged freehand
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lines and is most useful for bitmapped images. See
page 199 for information on using the Auto Erase
option with the pencil tool.
To save time when working with painting tools,
make sure that the Options palette and the
Brushes/Color/Swatches palette group are
displayed.
To draw a straight line with any painting
tool, click a starting point in the image.
Then hold down Shift, and click an endpoint.
To use the paintbrush, airbrush, or pencil tool:
1 Specify a foreground color as described in
"Choosing the foreground and background
colors" on page 214.
2 Select and double-click the paintbrush,
airbrush, or pencil tool to display its Options
palette.
3 Specify the blending mode, opacity, paint fade-
out rate, and stylus options as described in "Using
the Options palette for painting and editing tools"
on page 203.
Select a brush size as described in "Using the
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Brushes palette" on page 200.
5 For the paintbrush tool, select Wet Edges to
paint with a watercolor effect. With this option
selected, the paint builds up along the edges of the
brush stroke.
Drag in the image to paint.
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Painting with Wet Edges off, and on
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