Photoshop drawing and painting tools NEED TO REVIEW ALL THESE

The drawing toolbox has a number of shape options: 

• rectangle, 
• rounded rectanglel, 
• ellipse (includes circles), 
• polygons (ie N-sided items), 
• straight lines, 
• custom shapes.

Drawing a Line

1. Select the Line tool on the toolbox.
2. Click the Fill Pixels button to create raster shapes in the active foreground colour.
3. Click the Geometry options list arrow, to select from the following options:

• Arrowheads - has options for Start and/or End.
• Width. A percentage value (10 to 1000), setting the width of the arrowhead relative to the width of the line.
• Length. A percentage value (10 to 5000), setting the length of the arrowhead relative to the width of the line.
• Concavity. A percentage value (-50 to +50) setting the concavity of the arrowhead.

4. Enter a value (1 to 1,000 pixels) to determine the weight of the line.
5. Click the Mode list arrow, and then select a blending mode.
6. Enter an Opacity percentage value (1% to 100%).
7. Select the Anti-alias check box to create a visually smoother line.
8. Drag and drop in the document window to create the line.

Draw a straight line followed by curves

1. Using the Pen tool, click corner points in two locations to create a straight segment.

2. Position the Pen tool over the selected endpoint. A small diagonal line, or slash, appears next to the Pen tool. To set the slope of the curved segment you’ll create next, click the anchor point, and drag the direction line that appears.

A. Straight segment completed
B. Positioning Pen tool over endpoint
C. Dragging direction point

3. Position the pen where you want the next anchor point; then click (and drag, if desired) the new anchor point to complete the curve.

A. Positioning Pen tool
B. Dragging direction line
C. New curve segment completed

How to draw a shape
1. Select the shape you wish to draw from the shape tool.
2. On the shape-bar, set the line, fill style and colour.
3. Click and drag to make the shape.

Picking a colour using the eyedropper tool
1. Select the eye dropper tool.
2. Click on an area which contains the colour you want to pick - it will now be in your foreground.
3. To see the specifications of the colour, double click on the foreground box.


Using the Gradient Tool: you can either apply an existing gradient, or design a new one.
1. Select the gradient tool. Change radial, linear etc. sdettings.
2. Open the gradient editor by clicking on it.
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4. Click a stop then click the color swatch to the right of the word Color to open the Color Picker - use ti to assign a different color to the stop.
5. Click anywhere below the gradient preview to add more color stops.
6. Drag a color stop off the Gradient Editor dialog box to delete it.
7. Click the top of the gradient preview to assign different stops with varying opacity.
8. When you’re finished editing the gradient, name it and then click the New button.
9. The new gradient is added to the preset gradient choices.
10. To apply your gradient, drag across a selection or image with the Gradient tool.


Using the Brush Tool
1. Select the Brush tool
2. Change options for the preset brush.
Diameter - Temporarily changes the brush size. Drag the slider or enter a value. If the brush has a dual tip, both the primary and dual brush tips are scaled.
Use Sample Size - Uses the original diameter of the brush tip if the brush tip shape is based on a sample. (Not available for round brushes.)
Hardness - Temporarily changes the amount of anti-aliasing for the brush tool. At 100%, the brush tool paints with the hardest brush tip, but is still anti-aliased. The Pencil always paints a hard edge that is not anti-aliased. (Available only for round and square brushes.)


Erase with the Eraser tool
The Eraser tool changes pixels to either the background colour or to transparent. If you’re working on a background or in a layer with transparency locked, the pixels change to the background colour; otherwise, the pixels are erased to transparency.
You can also use the eraser to return the affected area to a state selected in the History panel.

1. Select the Eraser tool .
2. Set the background colour you want to apply if you are erasing in the background or a layer with locked transparency.
3. In the options bar, choose a Mode setting. Brush and Pencil set the eraser to act like those tools. Block is a hard-edged, fixed-sized square with no options for changing the opacity or flow.
4. For Brush and Pencil modes, choose a brush preset, and set Opacity and Flow in the options bar.
5. An opacity of 100% erases pixels completely. A lower opacity erases pixels partially.
6. To erase to a saved state or snapshot of the image, click the left column of the state or snapshot in the History panel, and then select Erase To History in the options bar.
7. Drag through the area you want to erase.




Use the Paint Bucket tool
The Paint Bucket tool fills an area, that is similar in colour value to the pixels you click. You can fill an area with the foreground colour or a pattern.

Note: When you are filling a portion of an image, make sure you have selected the part you wish to fill first.

1. Choose a foreground colour.
2. Select the Paint Bucket tool in the toolbox.
3. Set options in the Tool Options bar, as desired, and then click the part of the image you want to fill.
4. You can specify any of the following Paint Bucket tool options:
Paint / Pattern
Sets a foreground color (Paint) or a pattern design (Pattern) to use as the fill.
Opacity - Sets the opacity of the paint you apply. A low opacity setting allows pixels under a paint stroke to show through. Drag the slider or enter an opacity value.
Tolerance - Defines how similar in colour filled pixels must be. A low tolerance fills pixels with colour values very similar to the pixel you click. A high tolerance fills pixels that have a broader range of colours.
Mode -
Specifies how the paint that you apply blends with the existing pixels in the image.
All Layers - Fills similar pixels on any visible layer that are within the levels set by the Tolerance and Contiguous options.
Contiguous - Fills similarly coloured pixels that are next to each other. Deselect this option to fill all similar pixels in the image, including those that aren’t touching. The Tolerance option defines how similar the colors must be.
Anti aliasing - Smoothes the edges of the filled selection.

How to use the Clone Tool:
1. Select the Clone tool from your toolbox. Select settings, size, opacity etc.
2. In the Options bar, set the tool's tip size and hardness as we did it for the Brush Tool.
3. Point the cursor at the image area you want to paint with, hold down [Alt] key, then mouse-click. You have just selected the source point for cloning.
4. Paint with the copied pixels.
5. The "Aligned" gadget in the Options bar (checked by default) forces the source point to follow your mouse, even after you complete a stroke. In other words, every new stroke continues the image started by the first stroke.
6. Deselecting the "Aligned" option starts the sample point back to its original location every time you release the mouse button. That is, every new stroke re-starts cloning your image from the source point.