Photoshop 6 for Windows Bible- P9:If you are reading this foreword, it probably means that you’ve purchased a copy of Adobe Photoshop , and for that I and the rest of the Photoshop team at Adobe thank you. If you own a previous edition of the Photoshop Bible, you probably know what to expect. If not, then get ready for an interesting trip. | Chapter 5 4 Painting and Editing 207 4- Delete a brush To delete a brush from the current brush set Ctrl-click its icon in the Brush drop-down palette. When you press Ctrl your cursor changes to a little scissors icon indicating that you re about to snip away a brush. You also can delete a brush by clicking its icon in the palette and choosing Delete Brush from the palette menu. Want to give a bunch of brushes the boot Do the job in the Preset Manager dialog box. Shift-click the brushes you no longer want and then click the Delete button. 4 Restore default brushes To return to the default Photoshop brush set choose Reset Brushes from the menu in the palette or the dialog box. You then have the option of either replacing the existing brushes with the default brushes or simply adding the default brushes to the end of the palette. 4 Rename a brush If you ever want to rename a brush select it in the Preset Manager dialog box and click Rename. Or even easier click the brush icon on the Options bar as shown earlier in Figure 5-22 or double-click the icon in the Brush drop-down palette. Then enter the new brush moniker in the Name option box and press Enter. If you want your new brush names to live in perpetuity resave the brush set. Otherwise the names revert to their original labels if you replace the brush set as is the case with all changes you make to brush characteristics. Opacity pressure and exposure Another way to change the performance of a paint or an edit tool is to adjust the Pressure Opacity or Exposure value depending on what tool you re using. In Version 6 the controls appear on the Options bar which replaces the former Options palette. Regardless of which setting you want to change you click the triangle to display a slider bar drag the slider to raise or lower the value and then press Enter. Alternatively you can double-click the option box type a value and press Enter. Here s a look at how these options work 4 Opacity The Opacity value determines the .
