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Pencil Tool
-re Pencil Tool is used for drawing solid lines and strokes.
-^ s tool has the exact function as the pencil being used
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-^e shortcut is [SHIFT + B].
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5. Choose an option from the Style menu to control the shape of the paint stroke.
6. ForArea, enter a value to specify the area covered by the paint strokes. The greaterthe size,
the largerthe covered area and the more numerous the strokes.
7. For Spacing, enter a value or drag the slider to limit the regions where paint strokes can be
applied. A low spacing tolerance allows unlimited painting of strokes anywhere in the image.
A high spacing tolerance limits paint strokes to areas that differ considerably from the color
in the source state or snapshot.
8. When using a pressure-sensitive tablet, set any of the following brush dynamics options in
the options bar to Stylus.
. Select size to have increased pressure resulting into a larger area covered by the paint.
(Size refers to the area of coverage, not the brush size.)
. Select opacity to have increased pressure resulting to a more opaque paint. (Opacity
refers to the lightness and darkness of the paint). lf one do not have a stylus, set these
options to Fade.
9. Drag onto the image to paint.
Paintbucket Tool
The Paintbucket Tool fills similarly colored areas with the foreground color.
Click the Paintbucket Tool from the toolbox, select the color to apply and click
on the part of the image to fill. The shortcut is [SHIFT + G].
Gradient Tool
The Gradient Tool creates and fills color to an area. lt fills a gradient or a set
of the color spectrum over an image. This can be done by drawing a line over
the image. The shortcut is [SHIFT + G].
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Eraser Tool
The EraserToolerases pixels and restores parts of an image
D a previously saved state. The shortcut is [SHIFT + E].
Eliting Tools
The Editing Tools in Adobe Photoshop are used to make corrections on the
imge. The most common uses of these tools are for removing face blemishes
r pimples, adjusting the darkness and brightness of light, and even, making a
dplicate of a certain part of the image.
lf Aligned Sample is deselected, the sampled area is applied from the initial sampling
point each time printing is stopped and resumed.
It is because the clone stamp tool samples the entire image, this option is useful for
applying multiple copies of the same part of an image to different images.
t Select Use All Layers to sample data from all visible layers. lf this is deselected, the tool
samples only from the active layer.
& When using a pressure-sensitive drawing tablet, specify the effects of stylus pressure.
7- Position the pointer on the part of any open image as sample, and hold the [ALT] key then
dkJ<. This sample point is the location from which the image is duplicated when painting.