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Drawing and painting tools

Drawing and painting tools - Photoshop Tutorial

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Drawing and painting tools

- [Instructor] All right let's go over some brush basics. You can find the brushes in the tool bar and this is the icon for it. You'll notice there are a couple of other icons that look like brushes. Don't be fooled. You want the plain old brush tool, the one that has nothing with it and we're going to click on the brush tool. Once you have the brush, you'll see the size of your brush. It'll show you a circle on your screen and you can make this bigger or smaller by using the bracket keys on your keyboard. The right bracket key makes it larger and the left bracket key makes it smaller. Sometimes you'll grab a brush and it'll look like this. It'll be a crosshair and then it doesn't matter how big or small you try to make your brush. All you'll see is a crosshair. This is called a precise cursor and if you don't like it, all you need to do is hit the caps lock key and it'll go back to the other brush style. I find this more comfortable to use because I can see how big my brush is which…

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