User Guide

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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0
User Guide
Using the painting tools
You can use the brush, pencil, pattern stamp, or
smudge tool to paint color on an image. The
impressionist brush and smudge tools can also
paint using the existing colors in an image. The
five tools create different effects:
• The brush tool creates soft or hard strokes of
color and can simulate airbrush techniques.
• The pencil tool creates hard-edged freehand
lines.
• The smudge tool either smudges the existing
colors in your image or smears new color
through your image.
• The pattern stamp tool paints with a pattern
defined from your image, another image, or a
preset pattern.
• The impressionist brush tool repaints the
existing colors and details in your image using
stylized brush strokes.
Using the brush or pencil tools
Use the brush tool to paint with soft or hard
strokes of color and to paint with special effects
such as strokes that fade out. Use the pencil tool to
paint hard-edged lines of color.
To use a painting tool:
1 Select a color to paint by setting the foreground
color. (See “Selecting foreground and background
colors” on page 127.)
2 Select the brush tool or pencil tool .
3 Click the inverted arrow next to the brush
sample, choose a brush category from the Brushes
pop-up menu, and then select a brush thumbnail.
To learn more about using the brush presets, see
“Using pop-up palettes” on page 28.
4 To set the brush size in the options bar, drag the
Size pop-up slider or enter a size in the text box.
5 Choose a blending mode to control how
painting affects existing pixels in the image.
(See “Selecting a blending mode” on page 135.)
6 To set the color opacity, drag the pop-up slider
or enter an opacity value. (See “Specifying opacity,
strength, exposure, or flow” on page 138.)
7 Set additional tool-specific options:
• For the brush tool, select airbrush to enable
airbrush capabilities. This option applies
gradual tones to an image, simulating tradi-
tional airbrush techniques. Click the More
Options button to specify additional options.
(See “Specifying brush dynamics” on page 138.)
• For the pencil tool, select Auto Erase to paint the
background color over areas containing the
foreground color.
8 Drag in the image to paint.
To draw a straight line with a painting tool,
click a starting point in the image. Then hold
down Shift and click an ending point.