Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop CS3 in 24 Hours

Chapter 6. Painting with Brushes

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• Making the Most of Brushes

• Using Other Painting Tools

• The Color Replacement Tool

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You’re almost a quarter of the way through this book, and I think now it’s time to have some fun. Photoshop, as I’m sure you realize, is mainly an image editor. It was created for that purpose, and it accomplishes its purpose very elegantly. Yet there is more to Photoshop than just editing. You can also create artwork from scratch, just as in any good graphics program. Although many of Photoshop’s tools can be used to create an image where none existed before, tools that are explicitly intended for painting include the following:

• Clone Stamp and Pattern Stamp

• Brush

• History ...