Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual

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Picking and Using a

Basic Brush

Picking and Using a Basic Brush

If you look at the Toolbox, you’ll see the Brush tool icon just below the Eraser.

(Don’t confuse it with the Selection brushes, which are up above the Type tool.)

Click the Brush tool’s icon or press B to activate it.

Figure 12-1:

This complex drawing by

artist Jodi Frye was done

entirely in Elements. If

you learn to wield all the

drawing power in

Elements, you can create

amazingly detailed

artwork. Jodi has a

gallery of many more

Elements drawings in a

wide variety of styles at

www.frontiernet.net/

~jlfrye.

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Chapter 12: Drawing with Brushes, Shapes, and Other Tools 307

Picking and Using a

Basic Brush

The Brush is one of the tools that include a hidden pop-out drawer—you can

choose between the Brush, the Impressionist brush, the Pencil tool, and the Color

Replacement brush. You can read about the Impressionist brush and the Pencil

tool later in this chapter, and about the Color Replacement brush on page 259.

This section is about the regular Brush tool.

If you look at the Options bar (Figure 12-2), you can see that the Brush offers you

lots of ways to customize the tool.

Here’s a quick rundown (from left to right) of the available Brush options:

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