17. Brush (Painting) Tool:

Photoshop provides the brush tool and the pencil tool to let you paint with the current foreground color. By default, the brush tool creates soft strokes of color and the pencil tool creates hard-edged, freehand lines. However, you can change these default characteristics by resetting the tool's brush options. You can also use the brush tool as an airbrush to apply sprays of color to an image.

 

Option Bar:

 

 

¨       Specify a foreground color

¨       Select the brush tool or pencil tool.

Do the following in the options bar:

¨       First create a new canvas [size = as your needed]

¨       Choose a brush and set brush options

¨       Specify a blending mode

¨       Specify an opacity

¨       For the brush tool, specify a flow rate.

¨       Drag in the image to paint.

 

To draw a straight line, click a starting point in the image. Then hold down Shift, and click an ending point.

Define a Brush:

¨       Open a image or draw an image

¨       Select it by using rectangular marquee tool

¨       Edit menu> Define brush>Then give brush name and click on Ok.

Paint with your defined brush:

¨       Click on brush tool from tool box.

¨       Click on option bar “brush style” dropdown list.

¨       Then drag mouse pointer into the canvas.