Photoshop Elements 11: Visual QuickStart Guide

12. Painting and Drawing

In This Chapter

About Bitmap Images and Vector Graphics

Filling Areas with Color

Filling Areas with a Gradient

Adding a Stroke to a Selection or Layer

Using the Brush Tool

Creating and Saving Custom Brushes

Creating Special Painting Effects

Painting with Texture

Erasing with Customizable Brush Shapes

Understanding Shapes

Drawing Basic Shapes

Transforming Shapes

Creating Custom Shapes

Using the Cookie Cutter Tool

A lifetime ago (in computer years, anyway) a little company just south of San Francisco introduced a small beige box with a tiny 9-inch keyhole of a monitor and a mouse resembling a bar of soap. It could display and print only in black and white, was incapable of reproducing even remotely convincing photographic ...