PAINTING, DRAWING AND RETOUCHING TOOLS

PAINTING TOOLS The painting Tools of Photoshop includes: Brush Tool Pencil Tool Color Replacement Tool History Brush Tool Art History Brush Tool Gradient Tool Paint Bucket Tool

THE BRUSH TOOL When brush is dragged over an image, it creates a smooth stroke of the foreground color. WORKING WITH BRUSH TOOL Open an image. Make a selection using the elliptical marquee tool around the image for a round frame. Enter 32 in the box beside the feather option in the options bar. Click on the Select menu in the menu bar, choose inverse. This selects the area outside the image , which is where you want to paint the frame.

Click on the Brush tool in the Tool Box. Click on the down arrow button beside the brush option in the Option bar. The Brush Preset Picker appears on the screen. Click on the Brush Style of your choice. Click on the Foreground Color box in the Toolbox. The Color Picker palette appears on the screen. Choose any color and click on OK. Drag the mouse pointer on the image to draw a stroke of the selected color. When mouse pointer is dragged over the unselected portion of the image, it remains unchanged.

BRUSH OPTION BAR BRUSH PRESETS PICKER stores saved brush tip settings, such as brush size, hardness and air brush. TOOL PRESETS PICKER stores saved settings such as Mode of the brush, Opacity, Flow and airbrush Capability. Modes of brush enhances our painting. Opacity can vary between 1% to 100%.Flow of brush describes the pressure of brush. BRUSHES PALETTE contains various options such as color dynamics, brush shape dynamics, texture and paint scattering.

THE PENCIL TOOL Pencil tool is hard edged Brush, used to fill an area in a single shade or to draw a basic drawing. Pencil Tool has the same options as the brush Tool, with an additional option Auto Erase. Auto erase option lets you paint the background color over areas containing the foreground color. Working with Pencil Tool: Specify foreground & background colors. Select the Pencil Tool. Select Auto Erase in the Options Bar. Drag mouse pointer over the image.

THE COLOR REPLACEMENT TOOL Replaces specific colors in the image. We can paint over a targeted area with a corrective color. This tool doesn’t work with images in Bitmap, Indexed or Multi-channel color modes. Working with Color Replacement Tool: Select Color Replacement tool. Choose Brush tip in the options bar. Keep Mode to Color. For the Sampling option, choose Continuous. For the Limits Option, choose Fine Edges For Tolerance, enter a percentage value. Select Anti-aliased to define smooth edge in the corrected areas. Choose a Foreground Color that replaces the unwanted color. Select the color you want to replace in the image. Drag in the image to replace the targeted color.

THE ART HISTORY BRUSH TOOL THE HISTORY BRUSH TOOL This tool lets you paint a copy of one image state or snapshot into the current image window. It makes a copy or sample of the image and the paints with it. THE ART HISTORY BRUSH TOOL This tool uses the selected state as a source & generates artistic stokes with the foreground color according to the settings made in the Options Bar. We can apply different styles & fidelity values to it.

Working With Art History Tool: Click on the Art History Brush from the Toolbox. Click on the dropdown button beside the Brush button .Select the appropriate brush size. Click on the down arrow button beside the style option. Select Dab option from the list. Enter 6Opx in the area textbox. This value determines the area to be covered by the paint strokes. Create a source for the Art History Brush Tool by selecting & clicking on the empty box before that state. Drag the left mouse button on the image.

THE GRADIENT TOOL The gradient tool is used to fill an area with transitions (ascent or descent) of one color to another. We can fill an area with a linear, radial, angle, reflected, diamond and multi-colored gradients. A gradient can be applied to a selection or to an entire layer. This tool doesn’t work with images in Bitmap or Indexed color modes.

Working With Gradient Tool: Click on the Gradient Tool from the Toolbox. Click inside the gradient sample in the options bar to open the Gradient Editor dialog box. Select any of the gradients from the Presets box or create a new gradient from the Gradient bar. Choose Solid from the Gradient Type. Set the Smoothness for the gradient. Set the opacity of gradient to 100%.click ok Click &drag with the left mouse button in the area where you want to apply the gradient.

THE PAINT BUCKET TOOL This tool is used to color pixels with the foreground color based on a tolerance setting. Working With Paint Bucket Tool: Click on the Paint Bucket Tool from the Toolbox. Set 90 as the tolerance value, it determines the range of pixels the paint bucket will fill. Select the anti aliased option to maintain the edge-contrast i.e, smoothen the edges of the filled selection. Select the contiguous checkbox to fill the adjacent areas. Click at a point in the image. All similar areas will be filled.

THE DRAWING TOOLS Rectangle Rounded rectangle tool Ellipse tool Polygon tool Line tool Custom shape tool Pen tool Freeform pen tool Add anchor point tool Delete anchor point tool Convert anchor point tool Path selection tool Direct selection tool

THE RETOUCHING TOOL Spot Healing brush tool Healing brush tool Patch tool Red eye tool Clone stamp tool Pattern stamp tool Eraser tool Background eraser tool Magic eraser tool Blur tool Sharpen tool Smudge tool Dodge tool Burn tool Sponge tool

Spot Healing Brush Tool: quickly removes blemishes and other imperfections. It automatically samples from around the retouched area. Choose brush size and choose type option between proximity match or creature texture. Healing Brush Tool: lets you correct imperfections, causing them to disappear into the surrounding image. Patch Tool: lets you repair a selected area with the pixels from another area or pattern. Red Eye Tool: It removes the red eye effect from all photographs.red eye is caused by the reflection of a camera, flash in a eye retina

Clone Stamp Tool Used for retouching or repainting an image, also called the rubber stamp tool. We can clone or duplicate selected areas of an image. It easily removes blemishes or scratches from an image We can select aligned checkbox in the options bar with the clone stamp tool selected. Hold down the Alt key and click on the part of the image to be cloned. Release the Alt key and place the mouse pointer over the area of the image to be replaced with the cloned pixels. Drag the mouse-pointer to fill the area with the cloned pixels.

The Pattern Stamp Tool It only clones the pre defined areas of pixels –the pattern, rather than a source point in the image. Here, we first define a pattern using the Define Pattern option of the Edit menu and then clone this pattern using the Pattern Stamp Tool on an image.

The Eraser Tool The eraser tool works like an ordinary eraser to erase portions of an image. When working on the background layer, it erases the pixels to transparency. When working on some other layer, the pixels of that layer is removed to expose the pixels in the background layer. The Background Eraser Tool: Used to erase pixels of an image to transparency. Incase of multi layered images, the pixels are erased to the background layer.

Magic Eraser Tool Can be compared to the Magic Wand Tool, which is used to select similar colored areas in an image based on tolerance setting. The magic Eraser tool is used to erase pixels from similar colored areas of an image, the similarity of pixels being based on the tolerance value.

The Blur Tool The Sharpen Tool The blur tool makes an image blurry or softened. It works by reducing the contrast between the pixels and can be useed to smoothen the jagged edges The Sharpen Tool The Sharpen tool is used to increase the contrast and clarity of the blur images with soft edges.

The Smudge Tool The Dodge Tool The Smudge tool creates the effect of smudging wet paint with a finger. This tool is useful in repairing old images The Dodge Tool The Dodge tool is used to lighten the pixels in an image. Dark portions of an image may be made lighter to improve the appearance.

The Burn Tool The Sponge Tool The Burn Tool works opposite to the Dodge Tool. It darkens the pixels. The Sponge Tool This tool changes the color saturation of an area. Saturate option is used to intensify the color’s saturation, whereas the Desaturate option is used to dilute the color’s saturation.