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LESSON 8: BASIC BRUSH TUTORIALS What is it? The Brush tool is a basic painting tool. It works like a traditional drawing tool by applying the color using strokes. It's located in the standard Tool Bar and its default shortcut is the letter B. The Brush Tool works by adding a shaped mark on a layer, and if you continue pressing the mouse button or the pen on a tablet, several marks will be added creating a stroke until you release the pressure. The essentials options for the brush tool are: Brush Tip Shape, Blending Mode, Opacity and Flow. You must understand those concepts before moving forward with the advanced settings. Brush Tip This is the most basic option for any Photoshop User, the Brush Tip settings allow you to modify the way to add colors on a Photoshop document using the Brush Tool. By clicking on the Brush Preset Picker in the default Options Panel you will see several built-in presets. On many of the presets you can easily adjust two very important values: Master Diameter increases or decreases the size of the brush tip. The default shortcuts to increase or decrease are the Left Bracket key and the Right Bracket key respectively. Photoshop CS4 enables a dynamic way of doing it by Ctrl + Option (Mac) + Click or Alt + Right Click (Win) and Drag. Hardness increases or decreases the brush tip's border strength, 0% means a really soft border (color fades out) and 100% a precise border. The shortcuts to increase or decrease hardness percentage are the Left Bracket key and the Right Bracket key respectively. In CS4 you can dynamically modify this value by Ctrl + Option + Shift (Mac) + Click or Alt + Shift + Right Click (Win) and Drag. You can even combine Foreground and Background colors (we will see this feature forward). Most of the time the color that is applied by using the brush tip is the Foreground Color. Preset Picker Contextual Menu There are many useful tools at the Brush Preset Picker menu including Create a New Preset, Edit it, and Delete. Then there are some options to display the list of brushes in the Preset Picker panel, below there are several examples of this. Besides, you can easily Manage the Brush list by loading, saving and replacing brushes in the list, or Append one of the existing Brush collections. We will see more about preset creation shortly. _________________________________________________________________________________	The Coffee Addict Image Editing \| Tutorials A site dedicated to students who are having a hard time creating projects and needs helps for image editing

LESSON 8: BASIC BRUSH TUTORIALS

What is it?
The Brush tool is a basic painting tool. It works like a traditional drawing tool by
applying the color using strokes. It's located in the standard Tool Bar and its default
shortcut is the letter B.

The Brush Tool works by adding a shaped mark on a layer, and if you continue
pressing the mouse button or the pen on a tablet, several marks will be added
creating a stroke until you release the pressure. The essentials options for the
brush tool are: Brush Tip Shape, Blending Mode, Opacity and Flow. You must
understand those concepts before moving forward with the advanced settings.

Brush Tip
This is the most basic option for any Photoshop User, the Brush Tip settings allow
you to modify the way to add colors on a Photoshop document using the Brush
Tool. By clicking on the Brush Preset Picker in the default Options Panel you will
see several built-in presets. On many of the presets you can easily adjust two very
important values:

Master Diameter increases or decreases the size of the brush tip. The default
shortcuts to increase or decrease are the Left Bracket key and the Right Bracket
key respectively. Photoshop CS4 enables a dynamic way of doing it by Ctrl +
Option (Mac) + Click or Alt + Right Click (Win) and Drag.

Hardness increases or decreases the brush tip's border strength, 0% means a
really soft border (color fades out) and 100% a precise border. The shortcuts to
increase or decrease hardness percentage are the Left Bracket key and the Right
Bracket key respectively. In CS4 you can dynamically modify this value by Ctrl +
Option + Shift (Mac) + Click or Alt + Shift + Right Click (Win) and Drag.
You can even combine Foreground and Background colors (we will see this feature
forward). Most of the time the color that is applied by using the brush tip is the
Foreground Color.

Preset Picker Contextual Menu
There are many useful tools at the Brush Preset Picker menu including Create a
New Preset, Edit it, and Delete. Then there are some options to display the list of
brushes in the Preset Picker panel, below there are several examples of this.
Besides, you can easily Manage the Brush list by loading, saving and replacing
brushes in the list, or Append one of the existing Brush collections. We will see
more about preset creation shortly.

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students who are having
a hard time creating
projects and needs
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