Feb 16

I would like to note that Adobe Photoshop is not for painting, but for editing images. Therefore, you will not be able to draw anything you want with brush tool. More often than not, you will need to create new based on existing images. However, the brush is very important.

Drawing tools let you create arbitrary lines, simulating various real instruments. To drawing tools include:

1) With Brush you can create lines with smooth, or blurred edges of the rigid lines of different forms.
2) Pencil creates rigid line, simulating a pencil. It belongs to the same group as the brush. That is, if you can not find this tool, click the small arrow next to the brush and select the pencil tool from the palette.
Each of these tools have options. The most important parameters that determine the appearance of lines, are the thickness and shape. You can assign brushes in different sizes and shape with the help of a palette Options. So, select your brush and look at this palette. Let’s consider the options from left to right.
Brush tool options in Photoshop
In the first list with the image of a brush, there is a Tool Presets. It is present in the left side of the Options palette, regardless of which tool is selected. If you regularly use a tool with some specific parameters, for example, oval brush with a diameter of 45 pixels, in the mode of Multiply, you should save it as preset, so that a cause of the list. It is much easier than re-adjust every time the same parameters. Save preset can be as follows: Open the pop-up palette of harvest tools by clicking on the picture painted by the left side of the Palette Options. Then there are two ways:

1) Click on the image of a clean sheet and enter the name of preset. Then we can maintain the tool with the current settings as a preset.
2) Enter in menu presets palette. Do not remember how to do it? You need to click the black triangle in the circle in the upper right corner of the palette. In opened menu select the first item - New Tool Preset, and type the name of preset.

Brush presets options palette

The next option is located next to the word Brush. He is responsible for setting the brush size and shape. If we open the list, it opens pop-up palette, shown in the figure, which you can select a brush from the list or adjust the diameter of the current. Note that there are brushes presets, rather than general tools. At the bottom of the menu that lists the group palette brush presets. For example, Assorted Brushes - art brush (I recommend them to open, it is very beautiful), Square Brushes - square brushes, etc.

In this menu, the following important commands:

Reset Brushes - remove opened brushes presets, replacing them in the brushes by default. It happens that after the tumultuous experiments can not find a normal round brush, then this will simply irreplaceable.
Load Brushes - brushes for download from the file at the end of the current list. By the way, brushes are stored in files with abr (Adobe BRushes - easy to remember). Standard brushes are stored at C: \ Program Files \ Adobe \ Photoshop_folder \ Presets \ Brushes \ *. ABR
Save Brushes - save all the brushes from the current list in a single file.
Replace Brushes - download brushes from a file instead of the current.

Brush presets result image

A now try to reproduce this image. You dont have be a painter, have little orientation to the variety of brushes Photoshop.

Next Palette Options Mode parameter determines the mode of paint brushes. On the modes will be discussed below.

Opacity - defines the opacity of the brush.

Flow - this parameter has absolutely the same parameters opacity. But, of course, that the creators of Photoshop would not let such nonsense, so the differences are there. If you are not releasing the mouse button, hold the brush a few times on the same location on the image, the colors literally thicken, ie transparency of the layer caused by each will be striving to complete the opacity (if you want you can read again). As you guessed, in the case of opacity, how many times the brush is not occurring (of course, if you do not release the mouse) caused by the transparency of the layer does not change.

Right icon is transferred to the brush aerograph (airbrush). This mode differs from the conventional view that the paint as it is sprayed. This seems to work sprayer.

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Feb 1

In PhotoShop, there is a special interactive Palette Options. In the Options palette, you can adjust the settings for any instrument, with each instrument will have its own set of parameters. To set a specific tool you must first select it in the tool palette. Then gain Options palette set the options settings for the selected tool.

Options Palette at the top of the window Photoshop, immediately below the main menu. Palette can be moved around the screen, but it is better to leave it in place. In earlier versions of Adobe Photoshop deployed Options panel in the form of a floating palette, but now, this palette is nice.
Here is an example of how the palette looks like this for Brush Tool:

Options palette in Adobe Photoshop
You can enable or disable the display palette Options using the Options item in the menu Window.