From the course: Cert Prep: Adobe Certified Associate - Photoshop (2019)
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Using brushes, shapes, and patterns - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Cert Prep: Adobe Certified Associate - Photoshop (2019)
Using brushes, shapes, and patterns
- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll take a look at some of the resources built into Photoshop, like brushes, shapes, and patterns. Being able to work with brushes is a very important skill to have in Photoshop because so many of the tools use brushes. Of course, the painting tools do, but also retouching tools, like the healing brush, and the clone stamp tool, as well as the history brushes, the eraser, dodge, burn, and sponge, and other features like Quick Mask and Select in Mask. Now if I take the brush tool, in the Options bar, I can access the brush preset picker, as well as the Brush Settings panel, and controls like Mode and Opacity, Flow, Smoothing, and Symmetry. In the brush preset picker, I can see the brushes that come with Photoshop. And they're organized into these folders by type. Let's look in the General Brushes. I'll expand this so we can see more. And there's a slider to adjust the size of the preview. And here we have a handful of soft and round brushes. You can…
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Setting appropriate document settings3m 6s
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Creating a new document preset2m 5s
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Using elements of the Photoshop interface4m 4s
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Organizing and customizing the workspace4m 57s
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Configuring application preferences2m 10s
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Navigating a document4m 51s
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Using rulers1m 38s
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Using guides and grids3m 20s
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Placing assets in a Photoshop document3m 50s
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Using Adobe Camera Raw to process images4m 46s
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Setting the foreground and background colors4m 13s
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Creating and customizing gradients5m 29s
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Creating and editing swatches3m 38s
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Using brushes, shapes, and patterns3m 9s
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Creating brushes3m 33s
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