Adobe 29180155 User Guide - Page 236

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 4.0 231 User Guide Setting up brushes About brush options You can simulate actual brush strokes by setting the rates at which the brush tool strokes fade out. You can specify which options dynamically change over the course of a brush stroke including scattering, size, and color. The brush thumbnail in the options bar reflects the brush changes as you adjust the brush dynamics options. You set brush dynamics options by selecting the brush tool and then selecting from the following controls from the More Options menu in the options bar. Spacing Controls the distance between the brush marks in a stroke. To change the spacing, type a number, or use the slider to enter a value that is a percentage of the brush diameter. (The brush thumbnail in the options bar dynamically changes to reflect your spacing adjustments.) Increasing the spacing makes the brush skip. Fade Sets the number of steps until the paint flow fades to nothing. A low value makes the paint stroke fade away very quickly, and a value of zero creates no fading effect. Each step is equal to one mark of the brush tip. Possible values range from 0 to 9999. For example, entering 10 for Fade produces a fade in 10 increments. For smaller brushes, you may want to set a value of 25 or larger. If strokes fade too quickly, increase the values. Fade showing setting of 40, 60, and 80 steps Hue Jitter Sets the rate at which the stroke color switches between the foreground and background colors. Higher values cause more frequent switches between the two colors than lower values. (To set the colors used by the color jitter option, see "About foreground and background colors" on page 216.) Paint stroke without and with color jitter