Adobe 23101335 User Guide - Page 37
Drawing shapes, The Create Shape Layer option
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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 27 User Guide Choose a brush The Brush option in the options bar lets you specify the brush tip used by many painting and editing tools. With a painting tool selected, click the triangle to the right of the Brush option in the options bar to display the brushes. Then click to select the desired brush tip. (Larger brushes are indicated by numeric size rather than representative preview.) You can customize the specified brush by clicking its preview in the options bar. Sample brushes Specify opacity and blending mode In the options bar for each painting tool, you can also specify an opacity (to control how much the underlying image shows through the paint) and a blending mode (to control how the paint is blended with the colors of the underlying image). Drawing shapes The shape tools let you draw crisp-edged shapes of various dimensions and colors. Unlike pixel data such as a scanned photograph, these shapes are defined using the mathematical principle of vectors. Used in drawing applications such as Adobe Illustrator® and now Photoshop and ImageReady, vectors describe shape, size, and boundary properties of graphics with clean, resolution-independent precision. Select a shape tool and set options Select the rectangle tool ( ), rounded rectangle tool ( ), ellipse tool ( ), or polygon tool ( ) from the toolbox. Then select one of the following drawing options from the options bar: • The Create Shape Layer option ( ) creates a vector shape filled with the current foreground color. The shape is created on a new layer containing a layer clipping path. • The Create Work Path option ( ) creates an unfilled vector path with shaped boundaries. The shape appears as a new work path in the Paths palette. • The Fill Region option ( ) creates a rasterized shape filled with the current foreground color on the active layer. Selecting this option creates a shape based on pixel, rather than vector, information. You can also specify other settings in the options bar, such as layer style, opacity, and blending mode.