Photoshop
Painting
Overview
This module covers the painting tools and their options, managing tool presets, and the Fill and Stroke commands. There are quite a number of hands-on exercises during which you'll learn the concepts and try your hand at digital imagery.
Here is a summary of the topics in this module:
- (1) About Painting and Drawing
- This short lecture describes the differences between painting and drawing.
- (2) Brush and Pencil Tools
- These are the most basic painting tools in Photoshop. They each have a number of options that affect things like the size and shape of the tool and determine how the paint applied with a tool will interact with the underlying paint. The Brush Preset picker will be introduced in this lecture.
- (3) Brush Panel
- The Brush panel has many options for customizing brush settings. We look at Photoshop's new bristle brushes and the associated Bristle Brush Preview option.
- (4) Brush Presets Panel
- This lecture identifies the similarities and differences between the Brush Presets panel and the Brush Presets picker. It covers the panel menu commands for both since they are identical. There is a practice exercise at the end of the lecture that will get you comfortable with the panel menu commands used to manage presets and preset libraries.
- (5) Tool Presets
- The Tool Preset picker and the Tool Presets panel are explored in this lecture.
- (6) Preset Manager
- The Preset Manager lets you manage libraries of preset brushes, swatches, gradients, styles, patterns, contours, custom shapes, and tool presets. You can restore the defaults of any preset library, load other libraries, save new libraries and delete individual presets.
- (7) Mixer Brush Tool
- The Mixer Brush tool emulates real-life painting by allowing colours to be combined on a brush that will also pick up paint from the image canvas.
- (8) Gradient Tool
- The Gradient tool and its options are covered in this lecture and you'll try it out in two practice exercises.
- (9) Gradient Editor
- After learning a few basics about the Gradient Editor, you'll complete three exercises where you'll learn how to create and apply a solid gradient, a gradient containing transparency, and a noise gradient.
- (A) Paint Bucket Tool
- This is primarily a hands-on lecture where you'll learn to apply solid colours and patterns with the Paint Bucket tool, define your own pattern and apply it, and manage patterns. There is a bonus exercise on creating a video line effect on an image.
- (B) Fill Commands and Shortcuts
- This lecture introduces the Fill dialog and shortcut commands for applying fills to images. The Content-Aware fill and History fill are included.
- (C) Stroke Command
- Learn how to use the Stroke dialog to apply strokes in a practice exercise. You'll create a graphic using selections, fills and strokes.
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