Photoshop tools and drawing

Photoshop Tools and Drawing

1. Photoshop Drawing Tools

Photoshop has many drawing tools, including brushes, pencils, history brushes, and art history brushes , tools like Skin Stamp, Pattern Stamp, Eraser, Background Eraser, Magic Eraser, Blur, Sharpen, Smudge, Burn, Dodge, and Sponge.

2. Set the brush

When using drawing tools such as brushes and history brushes, the user must select a brush of appropriate size in the toolbar before drawing graphics.

1. Functions of the brush

First select a drawing tool, such as the brush tool, and the toolbar will change to the parameter settings of the brush tool. There is a Brush drop-down list box. Clicking the lower triangle button on the right side of it will open a drop-down panel from which you can select brushes of different sizes.

In the Brush drop-down panel, there are 3 different types of brushes.

The first type of brush is called a hard edge brush. The lines drawn by this type of brush do not have soft edges; the second type of brushes are brushes with soft edge functions. For the convenience of description, we call them soft edges. Paintbrushes; the third type of paintbrushes are irregular-shaped paintbrushes.

Note: When drawing with the pencil tool, you cannot use soft-edged brushes because pencils are always hard-edged.

2. New and customized brushes

In order to meet the needs of drawing, users can create new brushes for graphics drawing. Method: (1) Click the Window/Brushes command or click the button on the right side of the toolbar (need to select the brush case) you can open the Brushes panel, click the small triangle button in the upper right corner of the Brushes panel to open the Brushes panel menu, and execute the New Brushes (new brush) command; or place the mouse pointer on a certain shape brush, right-click, and select New in the pop-up shortcut menu. Brushes command, you can set it in this command.

Note: When defining a special brush, the user can only define the brush shape, but not the brush color; therefore, even if the user creates the brush with beautiful color graphics, the drawn image will not have a color effect. This is because when drawing with a brush, the color is determined by the foreground color.

3. Change the brush settings

Whether it is a new brush or an original brush, the brush diameter, spacing, and hardness may not meet the user's painting needs, so it is necessary to Set up existing brushes.

4. Save, install, delete and reset brushes

After creating a new brush, for future use, the user can save the settings of the entire Brushes panel by clicking on the Brushes panel Save Brushes command in the menu. Save the file format as *.ABR.

Note: The Brushes Presets option cannot be selected in the Brushes panel before executing the Save Brushes command in the Brushes panel menu.

You can install and use the saved brushes by executing the Load Brushes command in the Brushes panel menu.

Note: When the Brushes Tip Shape option is selected in the Brushes panel, the brush cannot be deleted.

(1) Replace Brushes: Click this command to replace the original brushes in the Brushes panel while installing new brushes.

(2) Reset Brushed: Used to reset the brush in the Brushes panel.

(3) Rename Brush: Select this command to rename the currently selected brush.

(4) Text Only: Select this command to display only the brush name in the Brushes panel.

(5) Small Thumbnail (small thumbnail): Select this command to display a small icon in the Brushes panel. Basically, the shape of the icon is the shape of a brush.

(6) Large Thumbnail (large thumbnail): Select this command, that is, not only large icons are displayed in the Brushes panel.

3. Drawing tool option settings

Each tool has an option parameter belonging to it, so when different tools are selected, different option settings will be displayed in the toolbar.

1. Color Mixing Mode

The control of color mixing mode is a more prominent function of Photoshop. You can obtain some unexpected effects by mixing various colors, and complete some Difficult operation.

Color blending refers to mixing the color applied by the current painting or editing tool with the original background color of the image to produce a resulting color.

The characteristics and functions of various mixing modes. Select the brush tool and open the Mode drop-down list in its toolbar, which provides 24 color mixing modes. Their functions are as follows:

(1) Normal: This is the default mode in Photoshop. After selecting this mode, the drawn color will cover the original background color. When the color is translucent, the bottom color will be revealed.

(2) Dissolve: The resulting color will randomly replace pixels with a background color or mixed color, and the degree of replacement depends on the opacity of the pixel location.

(3) Clear: Same as Behind, only valid for layers with transparent background.

(4) Behind (behind): This option can only be used for layers with a transparent background and the (), (), () buttons are not selected in the Layers panel.

(5) Multiply: When you select this method, you can view the color information in each channel and multiply the base color and the mixed color. The resulting color is always a darker color.

(6) Screen: This mode is the opposite of the Multiply mode. It multiplies the complementary color of the drawn color and the base color, so the resulting color is always lighter than the original color.

(7) Overlay: Perform Multiply mode or Screen mode on the color according to the lightness and darkness of the image background, and keep the background color from being replaced.

(8)Soft Light: Darkens or brightens the color, depending on the mixed color.

(9) Hard Light: Perform multiply mode or screen mode on the color, depending on the mixed color.

(10) Vivid Light: According to the light and dark meaning of the mixed color, darken or lighten the color by increasing or decreasing the contrast.

(11) Linear Light: According to the brightness of the mixed color, darken or lighten the color by increasing or decreasing the brightness.

(12) Pin Light: Replace the color according to the lightness and darkness of the mixed color.

(13) Color Dodge (Color Dodge): View the color information in each channel and lighten the base color to reflect the painted color.

(14) Color Burn: Reduce the brightness of the pixel color to show the drawn color.

(15) Darken: When mixing, the brightness between the drawn color and the background color will be compared. The brighter pixels are replaced by darker pixels, while the darker pixels remain unchanged.

(16) Lighten: Contrary to Darken mode, the lighter pixels in the background color or draw color are selected as the result color. The darker pixels are replaced by lighter pixels, and the lighter ones are Pixels remain unchanged.

(17) Difference (difference): The brightness values ​​of the drawn color and the background color subtract from each other. When taking the value, the color with higher brightness subtracts the color with lower brightness.

(18) Exclusion: Creates an effect similar to Difference mode but with lower contrast.

(19) Hue: Use the lightness and saturation of the background color and the hue of the drawn color to create the resulting color.

(20) Saturation: The mixed hue and lightness are the same as the background color, and the saturation is the same as the drawn color.

(21) Color: Use the lightness of the base color and the hue and saturation of the mixed color to create the result color.

(22) Luminosity: Use the hue and saturation of the base color and the luminosity of the mixed color to create the resulting color.

4. Photoshop Drawing

1. Healing Brush Tool

The Healing Brush Tool is a new tool in Photoshop 7.0. You can use it to continue all or part of a pattern. Copied into the same or another image, and produces a pattern of complementary colors to the original background of the copied image.

Note: When copying using the Healing Brush tool, a crosshair mark will appear on the sampled image, indicating the portion of the original image that is currently being sampled.

2. Repair tool

The function of the repair tool is similar to the repair brush tool. There are also Heal Selection and Use in the repair toolbar. Pattern button settings. Use the Heal Selection button to eliminate noise and blur the image within the selection range to make the seams better; use Use The Pattern button can fill the selection range with pattern content.

3. Brush tool

The brush tool can draw softer lines, and its effect is like lines drawn with a brush. Opacity, color blending mode, and density options can be set in the Brush Tool's toolbar.

4. Pencil Tool

The pencil tool is often used to draw some lines with prominent edges, just like graphics drawn with pencils. The Pencil tool can set opacity and color blending mode options. In addition to these options, there is another Auto Erase checkbox. The function is: when it is selected, the pencil tool realizes the erasing function. That is to say, when drawing in an image area with the same color as the foreground color, the foreground color will be automatically erased and the Fill in the background color.

5. Stamp Tools

Stamp tools are divided into two categories: rubber stamps and pattern stamps. The rubber stamp tool can copy all or part of an image to the same image or other images; the pattern stamp tool can copy the defined pattern content to the same image or other images.

Note: When using the stamp tool, you can choose brushes of different sizes for operation. Additionally, when copying content from one image to another, the color mode of both images must be the same.

6. Eraser tool

The eraser tool is used to erase the image color and fill in the background color at the erased position. If the erased content is a transparent layer, Then it will become transparent after erasing.

When using the eraser tool, you can set opacity, fade and wet edges in the Brushes panel. In addition, you can also select the Pencil (pencil) or Block (block) erasing method in the Mode drop-down list to erase the image.

7. Background eraser tool

The background eraser tool is the same as the eraser tool, used to erase the color in the image, but there is a difference between the two. That is, the background eraser tool will not fill in the background color after erasing the color, but will erase the color. The removed content becomes transparent. If the layer being erased is the background layer, using the Background Eraser tool to erase it will automatically turn the background layer into an opaque layer.

8. Magic Eraser Tool

The Magic Eraser Tool has the same function as the Eraser Tool. It can be used to erase colors in images, but this tool has its own unique features. It can erase adjacent colors within a certain tolerance. After erasing the color, the erased color will be replaced by the background color, and finally it will become a transparent layer.

In the toolbar of the Magic Eraser tool, you can set Tolerance (tolerance), Anti-aliased (anti-aliased), Contiguous (adjacent), Use All Layers (for all layers) and Opacity (opacity) and other options.

9. Gradient Tool

Use the gradient tool to create a gradual mixture of multiple colors. In essence, it is to fill in a color with multiple colors in the image or a certain area of ​​the image. Transitional mixed colors.

The parameter settings of the gradient tool have the following functions:

(1) Gradients (gradient) drop-down list box: This drop-down list box displays the color preview effect of the gradient, and click it The small triangle button on the right side can open the Gradients panel.

(2) Reverse: After selecting this check box, the filled gradient color is exactly opposite to the gradient color set by the user.

(3) Gradient tool: There are 5 tool buttons in the toolbar, namely Linear gradient (linear gradient), Radial gradient (radial gradient), Angular gradient, Reflected gradient, and Diamond gradient (diamond gradient).

(4) Mode (color blending mode): Select the color blending mode of the gradient.

(5) Opacity (opacity): where you can set the opacity of the gradient.

(6) Dither: Select this check box to use dithering to express mid-tones, making the gradient effect smoother.

(7) Transparency: Selecting this checkbox will turn on the transparent mask function, so that transparent settings can be applied when gradient filling.

10. Paint Bucket Tool

The paint bucket tool can fill colors in the image, but it only fills areas with similar colors in the image. To make the Paint Bucket tool more accurate when filling colors, you can set parameters in its toolbar. These parameters Numbers include color blending mode (Mode), opacity (Opacity), anti-aliased (Anti-aliased), tolerance (Tolerance), neighboring pixels (Contiguous) and filling content (Fill), etc.

11. Blur, sharpen and smudge tools

Use the blur tool and sharpen tool to produce clear and blurry image effects respectively. The principle of the blur tool is to reduce the contrast between adjacent pixels in the image, softening the boundaries or areas of the image, producing a blurry effect. The sharpening tool is just the opposite of the blur tool. It increases the contrast between adjacent pixels in the image, making the image look clear and crisp.

Note: When using the blur tool, if you press the Alt key, it will become the sharpen tool, and vice versa.

The smear tool simulates the effect of stirring and drawing by hand. Use the smudge tool to extract the color where you clicked and blend it with the color where you dragged the mouse.

Note: The blur, sharpen, and smear tools cannot be used on images in bitmap and indexed color modes.

12. Burn, Dodge and Sponge Tools

The burn tool and dodge tool are tonal tools that can be used to change the exposure of specific areas of the image, making the image darker or lighter. Use the Sponge Tool to increase or decrease saturation in areas of an image with great precision.

5. Processing text

1. Basic operations of inputting text

The word processing function of Photoshop7.0 is much more powerful than that of Photoshop6.0. Users can modify the text. Multiple controls, such as multiple text formatting for the same text layer, automatic line wrapping when inputting text, text conversion paths, etc.

2. Enter paragraph text

Photoshop 7.0 provides 3 ways to input text, one is the most basic way; the other is the way to input text in paragraph form; and the other is A way to input using a text mask. Method: Click the text tool, move the mouse pointer to the image window, press the mouse button and drag a rectangular frame, and enter text in the rectangular frame.

Using drop text, you can enter a longer paragraph of text within a specified range, and the text will automatically wrap during the input process. When it cannot fit in one line, it will automatically jump to the next line; if the input When the content is in English and a word does not fit at the end of the line, the input line will be automatically broken, that is, a hyphen will be automatically added to the English word.

3. Enter the text selection range

There is another way in Photoshop 7.0, which is to use the text mask tool to input text, which can generate a text selection range for making some special text. Method: After selecting the text tool in the toolbox, select the text mask tool in the toolbar, click in the image window and enter text.

Note: When using the text mask tool to enter text, a layer will not be automatically generated in the Layers panel.

4. Edit text format

The text layer has the flexibility to be modified repeatedly, so when there are errors in the input text content, or the user is dissatisfied with the text format, you can re- Modify and edit text content. Method: First in the toolbox Select the text tool in , then move the mouse pointer to the text layer preview thumbnail in the Layers panel and double-click, or click on the existing text position in the image window, and then click Window /Character command is enough.

5. Text Find and Replace

Find And Relace (Find and Replace) is also a new feature of Photoshop 7.0. It is as convenient and easy to use as Word’s Find and Replace. After confirming that the text layer is selected, select the Edit /find and Replace Text command.

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