How to Use Photoshop Painting Tools: If you are a photo editor or just a slay queen who is interested in making her selfie look more beautiful than her real self, you can use the Photoshop painting tool. The following steps below will show you how:
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- Create a new document. In the New dialog, set Width to 1024 pixels, the Height to 768 pixels, and the background contents to white.
Read: How to Use a third-party iPhone unlocking service - Select the Brush Tool (B). This has been part of Photoshop since even before version 1.0, and pretty much every paint application ever created.
- This Brush menu is also home to the Pencil tool, the Color Replace tool, and the Mixer Brush.
- The Pencil tool draws lines of varying thicknesses, and while you can use different brushes, the Pencil tool features no antialiasing; everything is bitmapped.
- The Color Replacement tool can be very useful for replacing one color or range of colors with another color.
- The Mixer Brush mixes together different colors, much the same way that an artists mixes colors on a palette.
- To pick a color for the brush, Click on the Foreground Color chip at the bottom of the tool list. A color picker dialog will appear. Pick any color that suits you. Then click OK to close the window.The simplest way to pick a brush is with the brush picker at the top left of the Photoshop window. Notice the Size and Hardness parameters. Size sets the diameter of the brush, and Hardness refers to the edges, example a 100% brush has a crisp edge, while a 0% brush is feathered for a soft edge. You can set the brush size to 30 and the Hardness to 50%, using the sliders or entering the number directly. You can as well adjust the Opacity and Flow, at the top. Opacity sets the transparency of the color, while Flow adjusts how much color is placed on the canvas with each stroke.N/B: In order to see the difference between Opacity and Flow, just set the Opacity to 50%, then scribble over an area repeatedly, without stopping or clicking. Assuming you are using red, you will notice a nice pink blob. In case you lift up your cursor, and then start scribbling again, notice that where the new scribble overlaps the old is darker and where the scribble is new is lighter. This shows that Opacity adds with every stroke, but not during a single stroke.Again, set the Flow to 25% and the Opacity to 100%, then, scribble as usual. Have you seen that as you go over your stroke, the color builds until it is completely red? The opacity is quickly build up to 100%. With a Flow rate of 100%, all the color is put on the canvas immediately.
- Select the Shape Tool (U): By default, it will select the Rectangle Tool. You have to Click on the actual Shape menu, and select the Polygon Tool. Then, this will allow you to specify any number of sides, and automatically draw the desired shape.
- You will note the settings across the top. The Shape menu shown open lets you choose Shape, Path, or Pixels. Choosing Shape will give you a filled path i.e. what you created with the Pen tool. This fill color is chosen using the Fill popup menu, the outline color if any is chosen using the Stroke popup menu, the stroke width is set with the stroke width menu and the stroke options; dashed or solid lines and more, are set from the Stroke Options menu.Another option to be aware of for the Polygon tool is the Sides field. This lets you specify the number of sides of the polygon i.e. from 3 to 100. You can either enter the number directly, or click and hold on the word Sides, and drag left or right to increment or decrement the number that is your choice.In order to create a polygon, click and drag anywhere on the canvas and your polygon will open out from the center of the click point:
- When you release the mouse button, the polygon will be filled with the fill color you have selected, and the border will have the stroke attributes you set.
- In the other way round, for fast and easy polygon creation, single-click anywhere on the canvas. A dialog will appear on your screen that lets you set the parameters all at once.
- Select the Paint Bucket Tool (G): While, because this is the second tool in this menu, you will want to actually click on the tool palette icon, then select the Paint Bucket Tool:
- You are likely to be familiar with this tool, because it is in virtually every painting application on earth. It will fill any give area with the color of your choice. While most applications require the filled area to be a solid color, Photoshop lets you adjust the tolerance so that any pixel that falls within the range of the original click location will get filled.
- Press D to select the default Foreground and Background colors, then press Command (Control)-Delete to clear the canvas and fill it with white.
- Select the Gradient Tool (G): Once the Paint Bucket Tool or 3D Material Drop Tool is selected, press Shift-G until the Gradient tool is selected. This Gradient Tool will let you fill an area with a smooth blending between 2 or more colors.
- On the top of the window, click on the gradient palette, and choose the blue, red, and yellow gradient on the top right row by double-clicking on it.
- Just like the Paint Bucket tool, you can apply a gradient to an image with different overlay styles. Experiment with those, to see how each one interacts with the gradient blend.
- In order to edit a gradient, click on the gradient palette. Then Gradient Editor will appear. Click on the colored tabs to choose a color for each point, and move the points to set the start and end points for each of the colors. Click on the black tabs at the top to assign opacity.
- Then, Close the Gradient Editor.
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