
You can use the “Mode” drop-down to determine how the brush will apply the color and interact with the color of the pixels it is painting over. You can use the “Opacity” slider to set the transparency level of the paint that you are using by clicking and dragging on the slider to make the adjustments. You can also type in an exact measurement in pixels in the box provided. You use the “Brush Size” slider to set the width of the brush tip you’ll use to paint. You can also control the size of the brush you are using. In the dialog box, you can select your brushes, rename, edit, save brushes you create and even load custom brush sets such as those in TeachUcomp, Inc.’s “Photoshop Brush Bonanza.” The “More” button allows you to change the display of the presets, changing the display to lists, thumbnails, etc. Use the preset drop-down menu to select the brush preset. To do this, choose “Edit| Preset Manager” from the Menu Bar. Once you have created a brush that you use frequently, you can save it as a preset tool that you can then access in the future with all of the brush options that you use already set. Here you can set different options that affect how the Brush Tool will interact with the underlying layer of the image. Look into the Tool Options Bar with the Brush Tool selected. If the lines aren’t appearing as you wish, remember that you can reverse your steps in the “History” panel and try again. The circle represents the width of your brush. To use the Brush Tool, just click and drag with the circle that appears in the image to paint. Oftentimes, if you are trying to apply an effect and it doesn’t appear in the image, you have the wrong layer selected in the image. The highlighted layer is the one to which the brush strokes will be applied. Next, make sure that you have selected the appropriate layer to which you want to add the brush strokes selected in the “Layers” panel. Click the button and then make sure you have the Brush Tool selected in the Tool Options Bar.

The button appears above the Paint Bucket tool, by default. The Toolbox will display the last tool you used. The Brush Tool shares a spot in the Toolbox with the Impressionist Brush and the Color Replacement tools. To use the Brush Tool, select it from the Toolbox and make sure that the color that you want to apply to the image is selected as the foreground color. Also, you can apply the airbrush effect to your Brush Tool to apply color in a spray effect, if desired. There are also other tools that you can use to create pixel color changes in an image. You can alter these settings by changing the tools’ options in the Tool Options Bar. The Pencil Tool creates hard-edged lines. You tend to use the Brush Tools to create softer color strokes in an image. You can use the Brush Tools and the Pencil Tool to paint and draw pixels in an image. Photoshop Elements has several useful tools that allow you to paint lines and color areas of the images and layers in an Elements file.
