Adobe Photoshop

Lesson E: Painting in Photoshop

The Photoshop team has lavished much attention on painting features. In this lesson, we’ll dabble with painting. If you like the experience, there’s the whole “Brushes & Painting” chapter in the Compendium! I’d suggest consulting it during these experiments too.

Prepare Your Canvas

• As you did in this chapter’s first lesson, create a new, empty document: click the Home button at the left end of the Options Bar. Then click the Create new button. Choose Photo to access the Default Photoshop Size. Click Create.

• Go to the Window menu, and open both the Brushes and Brush Settings panels.

Tools that use a brush ...