Adobe Photoshop Brush Tools

Use the toolbar image map! Jump To Image Ready Screen Layout Quick Mask Color Settings The Zoom Tool The Hand Tool The Note Tools The Color Picker Tools The Shape Tools The Pen Tools The Path Selection Tools The Type Tools The Toning Tools The Distortion Tools The Eraser Tools The Fill Tools The History Brush Tools The Stamp Tools The Retouching Tools The Brush Tools The Slice Tools The Crop Tool The Magic Wand The Lasso Tools The Move Tool The Marquee Tools Brush Tool [B] The Brush Tool (press B) allows you paint with the current foreground color. By default, the brush tool creates soft strokes of color. You can change the size and shape of the brush in the options palette.
Brush Toolbar      The Brush Toolbar also alows you to change the blending mode, opacity and flow of the current brush. You can even create custom brushes that you can choose to use as a brush shape. In the toolbar graphic you will notice that I created a brush with my signature. I can manipulate the size and opacity of the brush and then just click on the image to add my signiture.
     To create a custom brush, select the portion of the image that you want to define as a brush. The brush shape can be up to 2500 pixels by 2500 pixels in size. To be most effective, the shape should appear on a solid white background. If you want to define a brush with soft edges, select pixels with gray values. (Colored brush shapes appear as gray values.) Choose Edit > Define Brush and then choose a name for your new brush and click OK. Now your custom brush will be available to use in the brush pallete.
Pencil Tool [B] The Pencil Tool allows you to draw a line in the pixel size that you specify. The tool has a crisper edge than the paint brush. It will allow you to draw one pixel straight lines without the anti-aliasing that the paint brush uses.
Pencil Toolbar
     The pencil toolbar has basically the same options as the paint brush. The only difference is the Auto Erase option. The Auto Erase option for the pencil tool lets you paint the background color over areas containing the foreground color. If the center of the cursor is over the foreground color when you begin dragging, the area is erased to the background color. If the center of the cursor is over an area that doesn't contain the foreground color when you begin dragging, the area is painted with the foreground color.
     To draw a straight line, click a starting point in the image. Then hold down Shift, and click an ending point.
     When using the brush tool as an airbrush, hold down the mouse button without dragging to build up color. The longer you keep the airbrush clicked, the darker the color will be.

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Author: AB 
Date created: January 31, 2003
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