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Basic Brush tool settings

Basic Brush tool settings - Photoshop Tutorial

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Basic Brush tool settings

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- [Instructor] When the brush tool is active, the options bar at the top of our application window shows a couple of settings that help us to adjust the behavior of the brush tool. Let's have a closer look at what these settings do. On the very left here in the options bar, we see this little icon that resembles our brush tip. If we click it, this dialogue pops open and for the time being, we want to concentrate only on this value here, the size of our brush. We can adjust it with this slider. Then if we paint, the dialogue closes automatically and we can paint with our new brush size. So, it would be a little bit cumbersome to always go up to the options bar to change our brush size. That's why you can also just click the right mouse button and the dialogue opens right at the position of your cursor. You can change your brush size and continue your work. Here in the options bar you also find an opacity setting. It's currently set to 100%, which means that my brush tool applies the…

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