Photoshop
Painting
Review Questions
- What are the differences between painting and drawing?
- When the Colour option in the Brush Dynamics is set to Fade and a number of steps have been specified, what will happen over the course of a brush stroke?
- Describe two ways you can paint in straight lines when using the painting tools.
- What is the difference between a stroke painted with the Pencil tool and one painted with the Brush tool?
- Describe two differences between a Brush stroke and an Airbrush stroke.
- Which brush option affects how paint will interact with underlying pixels?
- Name four types of presets that are available in Photoshop.
- When loading a library into the Preset Manager, what two options are offered and what does each do?
- What two options are available for creating a new library of presets that affects the content of that library?
- When painting a gradient using the foreground and background colours, which colour will be applied at the starting point of the gradient?
- Name three of the gradient options (or modes).
- What gradient option will help reduce banding?
- In the Gradient Editor, what does a grey 'stop' along the top of the gradient bar represent?
- How do you add a colour stop to a gradient in the Gradient Editor?
- Describe three ways you can change the colour of the selected colour stop in the Gradient Editor.
- How does the Contiguous option work?
- What are the steps for creating your own pattern?
- Name four different types of fills that can be applied using the Fill dialog.
- Does the Fill dialog contain a Tolerance setting?
- What is the keyboard shortcut for applying the foreground colour as a fill? What about the background colour?
Bonus Questions
- How many gradients in the Gradient Picker are based on the current foreground and/or background colour?
- If you wanted to create an image with the left third white, the middle third a white-to-black gradient and the right third solid black, how would you go about it?
- Can you think of a workaround solution to applying a pattern to a stroke around a selection marquee even though the Stroke dialog doesn't offer a pattern option?
- When you have a painting tool active, how can you quickly adjust the size of the brush without going to the Tool Options bar?
Review Answers
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