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Introducing the Brush tool

Introducing the Brush tool - Photoshop Tutorial

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Introducing the Brush tool

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- [Instructor] Alright, I'll start by introducing you to the primary painting tool inside Photoshop which is the brush tool and we'll be painting inside this image here from the Dreamstime image library. Alright now, to get to the brush tool you click on this icon right here. And if you're not seeing it by the way then click and hold on that tool to bring up a fly-out menu and select the brush tool from the top of the fly-out menu. Notice it has a keyboard shortcut of "b" for brush. Now by default, this tool paints a very thin, soft line and incidentally, to reset any tool to its factory default settings in Photoshop, you go up to its icon on the far left side of the Options bar, you right-click on it and you choose Reset Tool. And now, notice if I start painting, and I'm just painting with a mouse which is why it looks pretty bad right now. Then I'll be painting with the foreground color which by default is black. But…

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