Painting and Drawing - Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 for Photographers - page 326

The Airbrush sprays the color
onto the canvas. The paint con-
tinues to build up as long as you
keep the mouse button pressed.

Spray build-up

Pencil
The Pencil differs from the other tools we have
looked at so far in that it paints freehand lines. The
thickness of these lines is dependent on the selected
brush size and the lines drawn with the pencil have
hard edges with no anti-aliasing. By clicking and
dragging the mouse, the user can create free form
lines just as if you were using a pencil and a piece of
paper. Using the tool in conjunction with the Shift
key means that you can draw straight lines by click-
ing at the beginning and end points.

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The thickness or size, mode and opacity of the line
can be altered via the tool's options bar. Also any
brush that has a hard edge can be selected for use
from the Brushes panel section also located in the
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Don't confuse the Pencil with the line version of the
Shape tool. The Pencil draws with pixels; the Line
tool defines a beginning and end point to a mathe-
matical pixel-free line that is drawn only at the time
that it is printed.

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Paint Bucket
The Paint Bucket, although not usually considered
a painting tool, is included here because its main
role is to apply color to areas of the image. The best
way to describe how it functions is to imagine a
Magic Wand tool that selects areas based on their
color and then fills these selections with the fore-
ground tint. In this way, the Paint Bucket selects
and fills in a one-step action.

The Pencil tool draws hard-edged lines.
(1) 70 pixel pencil.
(2) 30 pixel pencil.
(3) 8 pixel pencil.
(4) To draw a straight line click to start the line and hold down the
Shift key and click the mouse button a second time to mark the end of
the line.
(5) The shift + click technique is used to draw a rectangle.