Customizing Brush Libraries - Adobe PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS Manual

6 For Fidelity, enter a value or drag the slider to
control how much the paint color deviates from
the color in the source state or snapshot. The lower
the fidelity, the more the color will vary from
the source.
7 For Area, enter a value to specify the area
covered by the paint strokes. The greater the size,
the larger the covered area and the more numerous
the strokes.
For Spacing, enter a value or drag the slider to
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limit the regions where paint strokes can be
applied. A low spacing tolerance lets you paint
unlimited strokes anywhere in the image. A high
spacing tolerance limits paint strokes to areas that
differ considerably from the color in the source
state or snapshot.
If you are using a pressure-sensitive tablet,
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set any of the following brush dynamics ( )
options in the options bar to Stylus:
Size to have increased pressure result in a larger
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area covered by the paint. (Size refers to the area of
coverage, not the brush size.)
Opacity to have increased pressure result in
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more opaque paint.
If you do not have a stylus, you can set these
options to Fade. (See "Specifying a paint fade-out
rate" on page 149.)
10 Drag in the image to paint.
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Customizing brush libraries

The brush sizes and shapes available for painting
and editing appear in the pop-up palette in the
options bar for the painting and editing tools. You
can customize the brushes and settings for each of
the painting tools (airbrush, paintbrush, eraser,
and pencil) and editing tools (clone stamp,
smudge, focus, toning, and red eye brush).
In Photoshop Elements, you can save libraries,
load, replace, save, rename brushes in libraries,
reset, or delete new brushes or libraries of brushes
using the Preset Manager. (See "Working with
presets" on page 35.)
Creating and editing brushes
You can create new brushes and delete brushes
you no longer need, and you can use part of an
image to create a custom brush. You can also create
a temporary brush that you only expect to use
one time.
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A. Brush options B. Pop-up palette
To create a brush:
Do one of the following:
Click the inverted arrow ( ) next to the brush
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sample to display the pop-up palette in the options
bar, and choose New Brush from the pop-up
palette menu. The preview box in the lower right
corner of the New Brush dialog box shows the
current brush tip. The box in the lower left corner
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