Understanding Adobe Photoshop CS4- P4: Learning Adobe Photoshop is essential to success in digital media industries. Photoshop is a gateway into several related technologies. From digital image acquisition and processing to typography and compositing, Photoshop is often your fi rst introduction. If you can master this program, you can go on to success with several other technologies. With this in mind, it is important to learn Photoshop with one eye on the present and the other on the future. | This page intentionally left blank Painting and Drawing Tools 6 Photoshop has a very rich set of painting and drawing tools. These tools have been in Photoshop since its first release yet they have evolved greatly over time. The painting and drawing tools have many uses. To name a few Fine artists can paint entire works into Photoshop with its realistic painting system. Using software can be an affordable alternative to traditional methods which require more space and supplies. Comic book colorists can use Photoshop to paint the color into the inked drawings. FX designers can create background paintings for movie special effects work. In fact the co-creator of Photoshop John Knoll is a lead visual effects supervisor at Industrial Light and Magic the group behind the Star Wars franchise and many other well-known films. Commercial photographers can touch up and enhance photos using digital tools instead of a traditional airbrush. Nearly every photo you see in a fashion or entertainment magazine has undergone some digital touch-up in Photoshop to paint out imperfections. These tools appear simple at first and in fact they are. After all the technology behind a paintbrush is pretty straightforward. It s the skill of the user holding the tool that determines results. A thorough understanding of the painting and drawing tools can come in handy while working in many areas of Photoshop. Whether you use Photoshop for image touch-up or to create original images from scratch be certain to master these tools. 80 Chapters Painting and Drawing Tools Working with Color Working with painting and drawing tools requires you to use color. Photoshop offers several flexible ways to choose colors. You can sample a color from an open image choose a color from a library or mix a new color by entering numerical values. Which method you use depends on a mixture of personal choice and the job at hand. Let s explore the different options. Adobe Color Picker The Adobe Color Picker is a .
