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This document was created by an unregistered ChmMagic, please go to http://www.bisenter.com to register . it. Thanksand effects. In Figure 10.10, I've applied the Texturizer filter (Filter Texture Texturizer) and used it to restore the texture lostfrom the overpainting process. See it completed in the color section.Figure 10.10. Placing a canvas texture under this image makes it much more like an oil painting.Pencil and Colored PencilThe Pencil tool has been part of every graphics program since the very first ones. It's an extremely useful tool when you know how to use itproperly. The Pencil tool shares a space in the toolbox with the Brush tool. You can use it (or any of the brushes) in a sort ofconnect-the-dots mode. Click where you want a line to begin, and Shift+click again where it should end. Photoshop draws the line for you.Keep Shift+clicking to add more line segments. The Pencil can also serve as an eraser if you click the Auto-Erase function on the ToolOptions bar. With Auto-Erase enabled, when you click the Pencil point on a colored pixel that is the same color as the current foregroundcolor, you erase it to the background color. Use this feature to clean up edges or to erase in a straight line.Pencils are great for retouching and drawing a single pixel-width line, but difficult to use for an actual drawing. (Yes, you can set the Pencilto any of the brush shapes, but if you do that, it's functionally a brush.) The Pencil is easier to use if you zoom in to 200% so that you cansee individual pixels. Setting the mouse acceleration to Slow will also help, but it's even better to use a graphics tablet instead of amouse.If you want to get the look of a pencil drawing without all the effort, try the Colored Pencil filter (Filter Artistic Colored Pencil) orthe Crosshatch filter (Filter Brush Strokes Crosshatch). The Colored Pencil filter, shown in Figure 10.11, gives you a light,somewhat more stylized drawing from your original image. It looks even better if you convert the drawing to grayscale after applying the