Drawing with Brushes, Shapes, and Other Tools - Photoshop Elements 13: The Missing Manual - page 610

click the normal brush icon on the left to switch back to a regular brush mode. Fig-
ure 12-3 shows how this works.
Figure 12-3. As with real airbrushes, Elements' airbrush continues to “spray” paint as long as
you hold down the mouse button, regardless of whether the mouse is moving. Top: Here's what
you get with one click with the Brush tool in regular, non-airbrush mode. Bottom: Here's the
effect of one click with the same brush in Airbrush mode. See how far the color spread beyond
the cursor (the circle)? Not every brush tool offers an airbrush option, but it can be handy for
the ones that do.
▪ Brushstroke thumbnail . This squiggle shows the stroke you'd get with the current set-
tings. Click it to display the Brush panel, where you can view and select Elements' brush
libraries , which are basic brush collections. You can also download many more libraries
from various websites (see Stuff from the Internet ) .
If you click the panel's drop-down menu (which is initially set to Default Brushes),
you'll see that you get more than just hard and soft brushes of various sizes (see Fig-
ure 12-4 ) . You also get special brushes for drop shadows, brushes that are sensitive to
pen pressure if you're using a graphics tablet—which you can also use with a mouse, but
you won't have as many options—and brushes that paint shapes and designs.