Using the painting tools

You can use the brush, pencil, pattern stamp, or smudge tool to paint color on an image. The impressionist brush and smudge tools can also paint using the existing colors in an image. The five tools create different effects:

• The brush tool creates soft or hard strokes of color and can simulate airbrush techniques.
• The pencil tool creates hard-edged freehand lines.
• The smudge tool either smudges the existing colors in your image or smears new color through your image.
• The pattern stamp tool paints with a pattern defined from your image, another image, or a preset pattern.
• The impressionist brush tool repaints the existing colors and details in your image using stylized brush strokes.

Related Subtopics:

Using the brush or pencil tools
Using the impressionist brush tool
Using the smudge tool
Using the pattern stamp tool