Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 v.14.xx - Manual (Page 597)

Painting tools
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About painting tools, presets, and options
Paint with the Brush tool or Pencil tool
Paint tool options
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About painting tools, presets, and options
Adobe Photoshop provides several tools for painting and editing image color. The Brush tool and the Pencil tool work like a traditional drawing tool
applying color with brush strokes. Tools like the Eraser tool, Blur tool, and Smudge tool modify the existing colors in the image. In the options bar
for each of these painting tools, you can set how color is applied to an image and choose from preset brush tips. See Painting tools gallery.
Brush and tool presets
You can save a set of brush options as a preset so you can quickly access brush characteristics you use frequently. Photoshop includes several
sample brush presets. You can start with these presets and modify them to produce new effects. Many original brush presets are available for
download on the web.
You can quickly choose presets from the Brush Preset picker in the options bar, which lets you temporarily modify the size and hardness of a
brush preset.
Save tool presets when you want to store customized brush tip characteristics along with settings from the options bar such as opacity, flow, and
color. To learn more about tool presets, see Create and use tool presets.
Brush tip options
Along with settings in the options bar, brush tip options control how color is applied. You can apply color gradually, with soft edges, with large
brush strokes, with various brush dynamics, with different blending properties, and with brushes of different shapes. You can apply a texture with
your brush strokes to simulate painting on canvas or art papers. You can also simulate spraying paint with an airbrush. You use the Brush panel to
set brush tip options. See Brush panel overview.
If you work with a drawing tablet, you can control how color is applied using pen pressure, angle, rotation, or a stylus wheel. You set options for
drawing tablets in the Brush panel and options bar.
Paint with the Brush tool or Pencil tool
The Brush tool and the Pencil tool paint the current foreground color on an image. The Brush tool creates soft strokes of color. The Pencil tool
creates hard-edged lines.
The Rotation tool rotates the canvas, which can facilitate easier painting. See Use the Rotate View tool .
1. Choose a foreground color. (See Choose colors in the toolbox .)
2. Select the Brush tool or Pencil tool .
3. Choose a brush from the Brush Presets panel. See Select a preset brush .
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