Using Brushes In Elements

Using Brushes; Using brushes in Elements is very simple, but it’s not easy when it comes to painting with your mouse with them. Okay let’s go ahead and choose a brush.

You’ll see in your tool box on the right your brush tool and if you click on the little black arrow in the bottom corner a flyout box will appear, giving you four more options

You’ll also see in the top left hand corner your brush preview and if you click on that you’ll get a selection of brushes to choose from. You’ll see another little double arrow and if you click on that, you can change the way your brushes look…thumbnail, large thumbnail….etc.

Now if you click on the brush icon to the right you can access more additional settings for your brushes.

In here you’ll see fade, hue jitter, scatter, spacing, hardness. You’ll have to play around with these settings to find out what works best for you on your images or photos.

You’ll see in the image below the new flyout box appears after I clicked on the brush icon above it.

Four great tips to think about when you’re using the paint brushes.

1 – If you’re painting on a photo, I would set your brush set to normal mode. You’ll find it easy to paint the background.

2 – Using the impressionist brush will create a painted effect when you apply it to your image or photo. This is a really cool way of creating artistic affects.

3 – Colour replacement tool;- this for me has to be the best and most useful tool. If you set the mode to saturation and the foreground colour to black, you can selectively paint out the colour from the photo. If you need to switch colours, just switch the colour mode.

4 – If you need to blend, use the blending mode as this blends your brush strokes with the layer content.

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