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140 CHAPTER 7 Painting and Drawing 6 Set additional options: • For the paintbrush tool, select Wet Edges to paint with a watercolor effect. The paint builds up along the edges of the brush stroke. • For the pencil tool, select Auto Erase to paint the background color over areas containing the foreground color. 7 Specify the rate at which a brush stroke fades dynamically. (See "Specifying a paint fade-out rate" on page 149.) 8 Drag in the image to paint. To draw a straight line with one of the painting tools, click a starting point in the image. Then hold down Shift, and click an ending point. Erasing The eraser and magic eraser tools let you erase areas of an image to transparency or to the background color. The background eraser tool lets you erase to transparency on a layer. You can also use the Auto Erase option with the pencil tool to erase the foreground color to the background color as you paint, unless the area does not contain the foreground color. In that case the area is painted with the foreground color. Using the eraser tool The eraser tool changes pixels in the image as you drag through them. If you're working in the background or in a layer with transparency locked, the pixels change to the background color; otherwise, the pixels are erased to transparency. To use the eraser tool: 1 Select the eraser tool ( ). 2 Choose a brush size from the pop-up palette in the options bar. To learn more about using pop-up palettes, see "Using pop-up palettes" on page 35. If a brush is too large to ﬁt in the palette, it appears as a smaller brush with a number indicating the actual diameter in pixels. 3 Choose the tool Mode you want to use as an eraser-paintbrush, airbrush, pencil, or block. 4 Specify an opacity to deﬁne the strength of the erasure. An opacity of 100% erases pixels to complete transparency. A lower opacity erases pixels to partial transparency. (This option is not available for block mode.) 5 If you're using the paintbrush eraser, select Wet Edges to erase with a watercolor effect. When this is selected, the erased effect builds up along the edges of the brush stroke. 6 Specify the rate at which a brush stroke fades dynamically. (See "Specifying a paint fade-out rate" on page 149.) 7 Drag through the area you want to erase. Using the magic eraser tool When you click in a layer with the magic eraser tool, the tool automatically changes all similar adjacent pixels. If you're working in the background, or in a layer with locked trans-

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Table of Contents	3
Installing and Learning Adobe Photoshop Elements	9
Registration	9
Installing Adobe Photoshop Elements	9
Learning Adobe Photoshop Elements	9
Using Web resources	11
Customer support	12
Overview	15
Digital Photography: Capture and Correct	15
Digital Photography: Explore and Create	17
Easy to Use and Affordable	18
Web Tools	20
Explore Your Creativity	21
Produce Outstanding Results	22
Looking at the Work Area	27
Getting familiar with the work area	27
Viewing images	32
Getting the most out of Photoshop Elements	36
Correcting mistakes	40
Reverting to any state of an image	41
Working with presets	43
Configuring Photoshop Elements	46
Closing files and quitting	50
Getting Images into Photoshop Elements	53
About bitmap images and vector graphics	53
About image size and resolution	54
Changing image size and resolution	56
Scanning images	59
Importing images from a digital camera	60
Importing images using WIA (Windows Image Acquisition) Support	61
Creating new images	62
Opening and importing images	63
Placing files	68
Working with Color	73
About color and computer graphics	73
Using color management	73
Calibrating your monitor	74
Describing color	75
Choosing a color mode	76
Choosing foreground and background colors	82
Using the Adobe Color Picker	85
Using other color pickers	87
Making Color and Tonal Corrections	91
About correcting images	91
Checking scan quality and tonal range	92
Adjusting tonal range	93
Adjusting color	99
Applying special color effects to images	103
Sharpening images	106
Selecting	111
About selections	111
Making pixel selections	111
Adjusting pixel selections	115
Softening the edges of a selection	116
Moving, copying, and pasting selections and layers	118
Deleting selections	121
Transforming and Retouching	125
Cropping images	125
Changing the size of the work canvas	126
Creating panoramic images using Photomerge	126
Using the Liquify filter	132
Rotating and straightening images	133
Transforming layers, selections, and shapes	134
Transforming objects in three dimensions	138
Retouching an image	140
Painting and Drawing	147
About painting and drawing	147
Using the painting tools	147
Erasing	148
Using the impressionist brush tool	150
Customizing brush libraries	151
Setting options for painting and editing tools	155
Using the gradient tools	158
Using the paint bucket tool	163
Drawing shapes	164
Editing shapes	165
Filling and stroking selections and layers	167
Creating and editing patterns	169
Using Layers	173
About layers	173
Using the Layers palette	174
Creating a layered image	178
Managing layered images	181
Using layer styles	183
Editing layers	185
Specifying opacity and blending options	187
Creating grouped layers	188
Using adjustment layers and fill layers	189
Applying Filters and Effects	197
Using filters	197
Using effects	200
Tips for applying special filter effects	200
Improving performance with filters	201
Choosing a filter effect	201
Artistic filters	203
Blur filters	204
Brush Stroke filters	205
Distort filters	205
Liquify filter	207
Noise filter	207
Pixelate filters	208
Render filters	209
Sharpen filters	210
Sketch filters	210
Stylize filters	211
Texture filters	213
Video filters	213
Other filters	214
Lighting Effects filter	215
About plug-in filters	218
Using Type	221
About type	221
Creating type	221
Working with type layers	222
Formatting characters	225
Setting options for Asian type	228
Optimizing Images for theWeb	233
About optimization	233
Using the Save For Web dialog box	233
Choosing a file format for optimization	235
Optimizing images	238
Making transparent and matted images	241
Previewing and controlling dithering	243
Creating animated GIFs	247
Previewing an image in a browser	248
Saving optimized images	248
Creating Web photo galleries	249
Saving Images	253
About file formats	253
Saving images	254
Saving images in specific formats	255
Adding file information	262
Setting preferences for saving files	262
Using the Batch command	264
Creating multiple-image layouts	265
Printing	269
Printing images	269
Positioning and scaling images	270
Setting output options	270
Printing part of an image	271
Choosing a print encoding method	271
Using color management when printing	272
Printing over the Web	274
Production Notes	293

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CHAPTER 7

140

Painting and Drawing

Set additional options:

•

For the paintbrush tool, select Wet Edges to

paint with a watercolor effect. The paint builds up

along the edges of the brush stroke.

•

For the pencil tool, select Auto Erase to paint the

background color over areas containing the

foreground color.

Specify the rate at which a brush stroke fades

dynamically. (See “Specifying a paint fade-out

rate” on page 149.)

Drag in the image to paint.

To draw a straight line with one of the painting

tools, click a starting point in the image. Then

hold down Shift, and click an ending point.

Erasing

The eraser and magic eraser tools let you erase

areas of an image to transparency or to the

background color. The background eraser tool lets

you erase to transparency on a layer.

You can also use the Auto Erase option with the

pencil tool to erase the foreground color to the

background color as you paint, unless the area

does not contain the foreground color. In that case

the area is painted with the foreground color.

Using the eraser tool

The eraser tool changes pixels in the image as you

drag through them. If you’re working in the

background or in a layer with transparency locked,

the pixels change to the background color;

otherwise, the pixels are erased to transparency.

To use the eraser tool:

Select the eraser tool (

Choose a brush size from the pop-up palette in

the options bar. To learn more about using pop-up

palettes, see “Using pop-up palettes” on page 35.

If a brush is too large to ﬁt in the palette, it appears

as a smaller brush with a number indicating the

actual diameter in pixels.

Choose the tool Mode you want to use as an

eraser—paintbrush, airbrush, pencil, or block.

Specify an opacity to deﬁne the strength of the

erasure. An opacity of 100% erases pixels to

complete transparency. A lower opacity erases

pixels to partial transparency. (This option is not

available for block mode.)

If you’re using the paintbrush eraser, select Wet

Edges to erase with a watercolor effect. When this

is selected, the erased effect builds up along the

edges of the brush stroke.

Specify the rate at which a brush stroke fades

dynamically. (See “Specifying a paint fade-out

rate” on page 149.)

Drag through the area you want to erase.

Using the magic eraser tool

When you click in a layer with the magic eraser

tool, the tool automatically changes all similar

adjacent pixels. If you’re working in the

background, or in a layer with locked trans-