Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
center. Contiguous means it also changes similar-colored areas that are touching areas of
that color that are under the cursor.
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Brush Settings
. Most of the settings you see when you click this button (Hardness, Spa-
cing, and Roundness) are the same as for any brush (see
Chapter 12
for more about
brushes). In addition, if you're using a graphics tablet, you can choose to control the size
of the brush or its Tolerance setting with your stylus's scrollwheel (if it has one) or how
hard you press the stylus (
Graphics Tablets
)
.
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Sampling
. These three eyedroppers are the secret to making this a useful tool. They tell
the Color Replacement tool
how
to look for colors to replace. Here's what they do, from
left to right:
— —
Continuous
tells the brush to keep replacing every color you drag over.
— —
Once
tells it to replace the color where you first click and ignore other colors it
passes over. At least that's how this eyedropper
should
work. In reality, it usually makes
the brush behave more like the Clone stamp (
The Clone Stamp
) in unaligned mode: you
apply color by clicking repeatedly instead of dragging.
— —
Background Swatch
tells the tool to look for the color that's currently in your
background color square and replace that color—and
only
that color—whenever you
brush over it. If you use this setting, be sure your background color is set to the one you
want to change; use the Eyedropper tool (
The Color Picker/Eyedropper Tool
)
to sample
the color before you switch to the Color Replacement Brush.
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Anti-aliasing
. This setting smooths the edges of the replacement color; it's best to leave
it turned on.
Special Effects
Elements gives you some other useful ways of drastically changing the look of an image.
You can apply these effects as Adjustment layers (by choosing Layer→New Adjustment
Layer) or as filters (by going to Filter→Adjustments; there's much more about filters in
Chapter 13
)
. Either route gives you the same options (except for Equalize, which is available
only as a filter).
Figure 9-23
shows them in action
