Hour 7. Paintbrushes and Art Tools

What You'll Learn in This Hour:

You are already a quarter of the way through, and now it's time to have some fun. Photoshop, as I'm sure you realize, is mainly an image editor. It was created for that purpose, and it accomplishes its purpose very elegantly. Yet there is more to Photoshop than just editing. You can also create artwork here from scratch, just as in any good graphics program. Although many of Photoshop's tools can be used to create an image where none existed before, tools that are explicitly intended for painting include the following:

  • Clone Stamp and Pattern Stamp

  • Brush

  • History Brush and Art History Brush

  • Eraser, Background Eraser, and Magic Eraser

  • Pencil

  • Gradient ...

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