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Tips & Tricks Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Chapter 1 How to set the Brush Tools
Photoshop7 is equipped with many new brush features, including adding textures and combining brushes, to get the brush effects you've been dreaming for. In order to create your original artwork using a Wacom tablet, "Options Bar", "Brush Preset", and "Brush Palette"are recommended to be set.



How to set the Brush Tools
1. Select the Brush tool from the toolbox(*1)
2. Adjust the settings in the options Bar
(1) Brush Preset: select the type (shape) of the brush.
(2) Mode: select the Painting Mode.
(3) Opacity: adjust the opacity.
(4) Flow: adjust the flow of the ink/paint
(5) Airbrush Tool Mode: switches to the Airbrush
(6) Brush Palette button: opens the Brush Palette (*2)
3.Open the Brush Palette and set the adjustment features for the brush.
(1)  Diameter: adjust the size of the brush.
(2)  Angle: specifies the angle of brush's long axis, rotated from horizontal.
(3)  Roundness: specifies the ratio between the brush's short and long axes. 100% indicates a circular brush, and 0% indicates a linear brush.
(4)  Hardness: controls the size of the brush's hard center.
(5)  Spacing: controls the distance between the brush marks in a stroke.

*1:The Airbrush tool is included in the Options Bar
*2:Can be opened from "Brush" in window menu.
 


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Shape Dynamics Shape Dynamics
(1)  Size Jitter: specifies how the size of brush marks varies in a stroke.
(2)  Minimum Diameter: specifies the minimum percentage by which brush marks can scale when Size Jitter of Size Control is enabled.
(3)  Tile Scale: specifies the scale factor applied to the height of the brush prior to rotation when Size Control is set to Pen Tilt.
(4)  Angle Jitter: specifies how the angle of brush marks varies in a stroke
(5)  Roundness Jitter: specifies how the roundness of brush marks varies in a stroke
(6)  Minimum Roundness: specifies the minimum roundness for brush marks when Roundness Jitter or Control is enabled.
 


Scattering Scattering
(1)  Scatter: specifies how brush marks are distributed in a stroke.
(2)  Count: specifies how the number of brush marks varies for each spacing interval.
(3)  Count Jitter: specifies how the number of brush marks varies for each spacing interval.
 


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Color Dynamics Color Dynamics
(1)  Foreground/Background Jitter: specifies how paint varies between the foreground color and background color.
(2)  Hue Jitter: specifies a percentage by which the hue of the paint can vary in stroke.
(3)  Saturation Jitter: specifies a percentage by which the saturation of the paint can vary in a stroke.
(4)  Brightness Jitter: specifies a percentage by which the brightness of the paint can vary in stroke.
(5)  Purity: increases or decreases the saturation of the color.
 


Other Dynamics Other Dynamics
(1)  Opacity Jitter: specifies how the opacity of the paint varies in a brush stroke, up to (but not exceeding) the opacity value specified in the options bar.
(2)  Flow Jitter: specifies how the flow of the paint varies up to (but not exceeding) the flow value specified in the options bar.
 


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Texture Texture
A textured brush uses a pattern to make strokes look like they are painted on textured canvas
(1)  Pop-up palette: select the texture. Click "Invert" to invert the high and low points in the texture based on the tones in the pattern.
(2)  Scale: specifies the scale of the pattern.
(3)  Texture Each Tip: specifies whether or not to render each tip individually as it is painted.
(4)  Depth: specifies how deep the paint penetrates into the texture.
(5)  Minimum Depth: specifies the minimum depth paint can penetrate when Depth Control is set to Fade, Pen Pressure, Pen Tilt, or Stylus wheel and Texture Each Tip is selected
(6)  Depth Jitter: specifies how the depth varies when Texture Each Tip is selected
 


Dual Brush Dual Brush
The Dual Brush, lets you combine two brush tips to create numerous types of brushes.
Set the primary brush in the options bar, and the dual brush in this palette.
(1)  Mode: select the blending mode for the tip of the dual brush.
(2)  Brush List: select the brush for the dual tip.
(3)  Diameter: controls the size of the dual tip.
(4)  Spacing: controls the distance between the dual tip brush marks in a stroke
(5)  Scatter: specifies how dual tip brush marks are distributed in a stroke
(6)  Count: specifies the number of dual tip brush marks applied at each spacing interval
 
4.Check the rest of the settings at the bottom left corner.
Noise: adds additional randomness to individual brush tips
Wet Edges: Creates a watercolor effect
Airbrush: applies gradual tones to an image, simulating traditional airbrush techniques
Smoothing: produces smoother curves in brush strokes.
Protect Texture: applies the same pattern and scale to all brush presets that have texture
5. Register your brush as a Preset.
Go to the "Tool Preset" in the Options bar, and click the triangle, then choose "New Tool Preset" from the menu.
Now you're done registering your original brush in the Tool Preset.
 

 

 
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