User manual ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS

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[. . . ] The three tools create different effects: 140 CHAPTER 7 Painting and Drawing 6 Set additional options: · For the paintbrush tool, select Wet Edges to paint with a watercolor effect. · For the pencil tool, select Auto Erase to paint the background color over areas containing the foreground color. (See "Specifying a paint fade-out rate" on page 149. ) 8 Drag in the image to paint. To use the eraser tool: 1 Select the eraser tool ( ). To learn more about using pop-up palettes, see "Using pop-up palettes" on page 35. If a brush is too large to fit in the palette, it appears as a smaller brush with a number indicating the actual diameter in pixels. 3 Choose the tool Mode you want to use as an eraser--paintbrush, airbrush, pencil, or block. (This option is not available for block mode. ) 5 If you're using the paintbrush eraser, select Wet Edges to erase with a watercolor effect. When this is selected, the erased effect builds up along the edges of the brush stroke. (See "Specifying a paint fade-out rate" on page 149. ) 7 Drag through the area you want to erase. To draw a straight line with one of the painting tools, click a starting point in the image. Then hold down Shift, and click an ending point. Erasing The eraser and magic eraser tools let you erase areas of an image to transparency or to the background color. You can also use the Auto Erase option with the pencil tool to erase the foreground color to the background color as you paint, unless the area does not contain the foreground color. In that case the area is painted with the foreground color. Using the magic eraser tool When you click in a layer with the magic eraser tool, the tool automatically changes all similar adjacent pixels. If you're working in the background, or in a layer with locked trans- Using the eraser tool The eraser tool changes pixels in the image as you drag through them. If you're working in the background or in a layer with transparency locked, the pixels change to the background color; otherwise, the pixels are erased to transparency. ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 141 User Guide parency, the pixels change to the background color; otherwise, the pixels are erased to transparency. You can choose to erase contiguous pixels only or all similar pixels on the current layer. Using the background eraser tool The background eraser tool lets you erase pixels on a layer to transparency as you drag; this allows you to erase the background while maintaining the edges of an object in the foreground. The background eraser samples the color in the center of the brush, also called the hotspot, and deletes that color wherever it appears inside the brush. It also performs color extraction at the edges of any foreground objects, so that color halos are not visible if the foreground object is later pasted into another image. Note: The background eraser overrides the lock transparency setting of a layer. To use the background eraser tool: Erasing similar pixels To use the magic eraser tool: 1 Select the magic eraser tool ( ). This defines the range 1 In the Layers palette, select the layer containing the areas you want to erase. 2 Select the background eraser tool ( of colors that can be erased. A low tolerance erases pixels within a range of color values very similar to the pixel you click. A high tolerance erases pixels within a broader range. 3 Select Anti-aliased to smooth the edges of the area you erase. 4 Select Contiguous to erase only pixels contiguous to the one you click, or leave unselected to erase all similar pixels in the image. 5 Select Use All Layers to sample the erased color using combined data from all visible layers. 6 Specify an opacity to define the strength of the ). 3 Choose a brush size from the pop-up palette in the options bar. [. . . ] See GIF format anti-aliasing 3D rendering 132 Adobe Illustrator files 58 EPS files 58 PDF files 57 placed artwork 61 selections 108 type 216 Apple Color Picker 79 application dither. See dithering Arrange command 169 Arrange Icons command 24 arrowhead options 157 Artistic filters 195 See also individual names of filters ASCII encoding 263 Asian type. See CJK type aspect ratio 104 aspect ratio, constraining when placing files 60 Auto Erase option 140, 142 Auto Levels command 86, 88 Auto Select Layer option 215 automating batch-processing 256 multiple image layouts 257 average-key images 84, 89, 95 B background color choosing 74, 76 filling selections with 160 printing 263 selecting with eyedropper tool 75 setting in new images 54 background eraser tool 141 background matting for Web 233 in GIF or PNG format 234 in JPEG format 235 background transparency 233 backgrounds converting to layer 171 from filter effects 193 moving 169 Bas Relief filter 202 base layer 180 Batch command 256 Bicubic interpolation 49 Bilinear interpolation 49 binary encoding 263 bitmap images, about 45 See also images Bitmap mode about 69 converting to 70 paint bucket tool 155 type in 213 268 INDEX black and white points, scanning 52 black-and-white images, creating 96 blending modes 147 bloat tool 125 Blur and Blur More filters 196 Blur filters 194, 196 See also individual names of filters blur tool 135 BMP format 248 borders, printing 263 brightness adjusting 87 defined 68 equalizing 96 Brightness/Contrast command 87 Bring Forward command 169 Bring to Front command 169 browser dither. See dithering Brush Stroke filters 194, 197 See also individual names of filters brushes angle options 146 creating 144 creating preset 145 customizing libraries 143 Define Brush command 144 deleting 144 Diameter option 145 dynamics 143 Fade option 150 fading strokes 140 Hardness option 146 impressionist brush tool 142 libraries 143 New Brush command 143 options 145 pointer options 39 presets 37 Roundness option 146 selecting 139 simulating strokes 149 Spacing option 146 stylus pressure 149 bump maps 210 burn tool about 135 adjusting highlights 136 adjusting midtones 136 adjusting shadows 136 C calibrating monitors 67 canceling operations 31 canvas filling 160 resizing 118 transparency 118 Canvas 180° command 126 Canvas 90° Left command 125 Canvas 90° Right command 126 Canvas Custom command 126 Canvas Size command 118 captions creating 254 printing 263 Cascade command 24 CCITT compression 246 Chalk & Charcoal filter 202 Change Layer Content command 184 characters. [. . . ]