Adobe Photoshop 6.0 User Guide

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Adobe Photoshop Basics
Painting and drawing
Painting
Painting in Photoshop or ImageReady is as easy as choosing a color, selecting a tool, choosing a brush tip, and
dragging in the image to paint. The various painting tools are modeled after styles of traditional paint media.
Choose a foreground color Before painting an
image, you need to specify the foreground color
that will be used to paint. Click the top color
selection box in the toolbox, and choose a color
in the color picker. You can select the Only Web
Colors option to confine your range of choices to
Web-safe colors.
You can also use the Color or Swatches palette to
choose colors.
Select a painting tool Select a painting tool from the toolbox and drag in the image to paint:
• The paintbrush tool ( ) creates soft strokes of color.
• The pencil tool ( ) creates hard-edged freehand lines.
Choosing a foreground color
• The airbrush tool ( ) lets you apply gradual tones and sprays of color. You can build up color (as with
a traditional airbrush) by holding down the mouse in a stationary position.
• The eraser tool ( ) lets you erase areas to transparency or, if you’re working in the background layer
or in a layer with locked transparency, to the background color. (You set the background color by
clicking the bottom color selection box in the toolbox.)