Photoshop CS2 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies- P11:Barbara Obermeier is principal of Obermeier Design, a graphic design studio in Ventura, California. She’s the author of Photoshop Album For Dummies, coauthor of Adobe Master Class: Illustrator Illuminated, Photoshop 7 For Dummies, and Illustrator 10 For Dummies. She has contributed as coauthor, technical editor, or layout designer for numerous books. Barb also teaches computer graphics at Brooks Institute; the University of California, Santa Barbara; and Ventura College | 278 Introducing the Pencil and Brush Tools this brush tip and move the slider to the right to get a hard-edged brush in any size up to 2500 pixels. To change the brush size from the keyboard when a tool is active press the key the right bracket to increase the size and the key the left bracket to decrease the size. The amount of change varies according to the initial size of the brush. To adjust the size more dramatically continue to press the bracket key. Choose the Use Sample Size option to get brush strokes of equal size. Depending on the size settings in your Shape Dynamics characteristics when you use a scatter brush such as a fish or flower you get random variations in sizes. Select the Use Sample Size option before you use the brush to get a consistently sized stroke every time based on a preset sample size. Note that you must select the option each time you use the brush and you must also click not drag the brush for each individual stroke to be equally sized. Choose any of the libraries of additional brush tip presets provided with Photoshop. Click the Brush Preset picker s pop-up menu and choose one of the other brush libraries shown at the bottom. They have names like Special Effect Brushes and Faux Finish Brushes. Select one to append the brushes to your current set or to replace the current set with the library you select a dialog box appears that offers a choice of either action . You can also manage brush tip libraries by using the Preset Manager. See Book I Chapter 5 for information on using the Preset Manager. Select your own custom library of brush tips that you ve created. Click Load Brushes to append new brushes to your current collection or to replace them with the new library. If the Hardness option is available adjust the slider to make the brush more higher or less lower fuzzy. In addition to the presets Photoshop offers you can create your own presets to use when you need them. Book I Chapter 2 explains how to create your own presets. .
