Photoshop Elements 2021 For Dummies

Chapter 13

Drawing and Painting

IN THIS CHAPTER

Choosing colors and drawing with Pencil and Brush

Filling and outlining your selections

Pouring color with the Paint Bucket tool

Creating gradients and patterns

Creating and editing shapes of all sorts

Elements is such a deluxe, full-service image-editing program that it doesn’t stop at giving you tools to select, repair, organize, and share your images. It figures that you may need to add a swash of color, either freeform with a brush or pencil, or in the form of a geometric or organic shape. Don’t worry: This drawing and painting business isn’t just for those with innate artistic talent. In fact, Elements gives you plenty of preset brushes and shapes to choose from. If you can pick a tool and drag your mouse, you can draw and paint.

Choosing Color

Before you start drawing or painting, you may want to change your color to something other than the default color of black. If you read the earlier chapters in this book, you may have checked ...