Understanding: Adobe Photoshop

6. Painting and Drawing Tools Photoshop has a very rich set of painting and drawing tools. These tools have been in Photoshop since its first release, yet they have evolved greatly over time. The painting and drawing tools have many uses. To...

Working with Color Working with painting and drawing tools requires you to use color. Photoshop offers several flexible ways to choose colors. You can sample a color from an open image, choose a color from a library, or mix a new color by enteri...

Painting Tools Several tools are available for painting inside of Photoshop. While these tools have subtle differences, they have one important thing in common: use of Photoshop's dynamic brush engine. Before we explore the unique tools, let's dis...

Eraser Tools Photoshop offers three kinds of Eraser tools to complement your drawing tools. While these tools have a purpose, you should quickly move beyond them as they often produce crude edges in the erased area that lower the quality of your...

Drawing Tools While Photoshop is best known as a pixel-based (or raster) program, it does have a respectable set of vector drawing tools. Vector graphics are made up of mathematically defined lines and curves. Vector graphics are resolution-indepe...