Painting

In Photoshop, you have two choices for painting: the Paintbrush (Brush) tool or the Pencil tool. The only difference between the two is that the Paintbrush always delivers a soft-edged stroke—even a seemingly hard-edged brush will produce a slightly blended edge —whereas the Pencil tool produces a truly crisp edge (Figures 1.41 and 1.42).

Figure 1.41. Paint stroke created with the Paintbrush tool.

Figure 1.42. Paint stroke created with the Pencil tool.

All painting tools use the current foreground color when you're painting on the image, ...

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