Photoshop 6 for Windows Bible- P9

Photoshop 6 for Windows Bible- P9:If you are reading this foreword, it probably means that you’ve purchased a copyof Adobe Photoshop 6.0, and for that I and the rest of the Photoshop team atAdobe thank you.If you own a previous edition of the Photoshop Bible, you probably know what toexpect. If not, then get ready for an interesting trip.
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Photoshop 6 for Windows Bible- P9 Chapter 5 ✦ Painting and Editing 207 ✦ Delete a brush: To delete a brush from the current brush set, Ctrl-click its icon in the Brush drop-down palette. When you press Ctrl, your cursor changes to a little scissors icon, indicating that you’re about to snip away a brush. You also can delete a brush by clicking its icon in the palette and choosing Delete Brush from the palette menu. Want to give a bunch of brushes the boot? Do the job in the Preset Manager dialog box. Shift-click the brushes you no longer want and then click the Delete button. ✦ Restore default brushes: To return to the default Photoshop brush set, choose Reset Brushes from the menu in the palette or the dialog box. You then have the option of either replacing the existing brushes with the default brushes or simply adding the default brushes to the end of the palette. ✦ Rename a brush: If you ever want to rename a brush, select it in the Preset Manager dialog box and click Rename. Or, even easier, click the brush icon on the Options bar (as shown earlier, in Figure 5-22) or double-click the icon in the Brush drop-down palette. Then enter the new brush moniker in the Name option box and press Enter.Caution If you want your new brush names to live in perpetuity, resave the brush set. Otherwise, the names revert to their original labels if you replace the brush set, as is the case with all changes you make to brush characteristics. Opacity, pressure, and exposure Another way to change the performance of a paint or an edit tool is to adjust the Pressure, Opacity, or Exposure value, depending on what tool you’re using. In Version 6, the controls appear on the Options bar, which replaces the former Options palette. Regardless of which setting you want to change, you click the triangle to display a slider bar, drag the slider to raise or lower the value, and then press Enter. Alterna- tively, you can double-click the option box, type a value, and press Enter. Here’s a look at how these options work: ✦ Opacity: The Opacity value determines the translucency of colors applied with the paint bucket, gradient, line, pencil, paintbrush, eraser, or rubber stamp tools. At 100 percent, the applied colors appear opaque, completely covering the image behind them. (The one exception is the paintbrush with Wet Edges active, which is always translucent.) At lower settings, the applied colors mix with the existing colors in the image. Tip You can change the opacity of pixels that you just altered by choosing Edit ➪ Fade (Ctrl+Shift+F) and dragging the Opacity slider in the Fade dialog box. While you’re in the dialog box, you can apply one of Photoshop’s brush modes to further change how the edited pixels blend with the originals. Chapter 10 discusses the Fade command in detail; you can get an introduction to brush modes at the end of this chapter in the “Brush Modes” section.208 Part II ✦ Painting and Retouching ✦ Pressure: The Pressure value affects different tools in different ways. When you use the airbrush tool, the Pressure value controls the opacity of each spot of color the tool delivers. The effect appears unique because the airbrush lays each spot of color onto the previous spot, mixing them together. This results in a progressive effect. Meanwhile, the paintbrush and pencil tools are not pro- gressive, so their spots blend to form smooth lines. When you use the smudge tool, the Pressure value controls the distance the tool drags colors in the image. And in the case of the blur, sharpen, or sponge tool, the value determines the degree to which the tool changes the focus or saturation of the image, 1 percent being the minimum and 100 percent being the maximum. ✦ Exposure: Available when you select the dodge or burn tool, Exposure con- trols how much the tools lighten or darken the image, respectively. A setting of 100 percent applies the maximum amount of ...