Adobe 23101335 User Guide - Page 36
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26 Adobe Photoshop Basics Painting and drawing Painting Painting in Photoshop or ImageReady is as easy as choosing a color, selecting a tool, choosing a brush tip, and dragging in the image to paint. The various painting tools are modeled after styles of traditional paint media. Choose a foreground color Before painting an image, you need to specify the foreground color that will be used to paint. Click the top color selection box in the toolbox, and choose a color in the color picker. You can select the Only Web Colors option to confine your range of choices to Web-safe colors. You can also use the Color or Swatches palette to choose colors. Choosing a foreground color Select a painting tool Select a painting tool from the toolbox and drag in the image to paint: • The paintbrush tool ( ) creates soft strokes of color. • The pencil tool ( ) creates hard-edged freehand lines. • The airbrush tool ( ) lets you apply gradual tones and sprays of color. You can build up color (as with a traditional airbrush) by holding down the mouse in a stationary position. • The eraser tool ( ) lets you erase areas to transparency or, if you're working in the background layer or in a layer with locked transparency, to the background color. (You set the background color by clicking the bottom color selection box in the toolbox.)