Chapter 8: Advanced Drawing and Painting Techniques

This chapter will look at some of the more esoteric functions that you'll find in Elements. I use the word esoteric simply because these features are more graphic than photographic, more illustrative than documentary; however, as you'll see here, these features can be used to create standalone designs, or they can be incorporated into your day-to-day photography projects to produce outstanding results.

The main topics that will be discussed in this chapter are as follows:

  • Illustration – drawing and painting techniques
  • The View menu
  • Using a graphics tablet
  • Using brushes
  • Brush behavior
  • Drawing a sphere from scratch
  • The Impressionist Brush
  • The Color Replacement Tool
  • Working with Brushes
  • Importing ...

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