- #CHOOSE PAINT BRUSH COLOR IN PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS FOR MAC SOFTWARE#
- #CHOOSE PAINT BRUSH COLOR IN PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS FOR MAC PC#
- #CHOOSE PAINT BRUSH COLOR IN PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS FOR MAC PLUS#
The Hue Jitter, Saturation Jitter and Brightness Jitter options in the Color Dynamics section of the Brushes panel all work in a similar way as the Foreground/Background Jitter option we just looked at. Up next, we'll look at the Hue, Saturation, Brightness, and Purity controls! Hue Jitter With jitter set to 100%, the Foreground color, Background color or any tint between the two can be used. By default, these are set to black (Foreground color) and white (Background color): The lower right square is the Background color swatch.
The square in the upper left is the Foreground color swatch.
You can see what your Foreground and Background colors are currently set to by looking at their color swatches near the bottom of the Tools palette. But why settle for painting with just one color when we can paint with two! The Foreground/Background option at the top of the Color Dynamics section allows us to switch between our current Foreground and Background colors as we paint! Normally, Photoshop uses our current Foreground color as the color for our brush, so if we wanted to paint with red, yellow, blue, or whatever the case may be, we'd set our Foreground color to the color we wanted before we started painting. Jitter, as we know by now, means randomness in Photoshop, which means we can use these options to let Photoshop randomly change these three aspects of our brush's color as we paint! Let's look at each of the Color Dynamics options more closely.
#CHOOSE PAINT BRUSH COLOR IN PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS FOR MAC PC#
It's new in Photoshop CS3 and it will be new in Photoshop Elements 6 for the Mac (I believe PC users already have it).The Hue Jitter, Saturation Jitter and Brightness Jitter controls. This particular tutorial is going to focus on a rather new selection tool on the scene called the Quick Select tool.
#CHOOSE PAINT BRUSH COLOR IN PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS FOR MAC PLUS#
Shift will add to the selection, and you'll see a tiny plus sign appear next to the cursor.Option (PC: Alt) will subtract to the selection, and your cursor will acquire a tiny minus sign.Also, once you have the "marching selection ants" (that's really what they look like), you can add or subtract from the selection by using modifier keys: No matter which tool you use first, you can always switch to another to refine the selection.
Would you rather use the Brush tool to "paint" the selection? You can do this in Photoshop by using the QuickMask mode (fodder for another tutorial). With either tool, use the Tolerance setting in the Options bar at the top of your screen to tweak the tool's sensitivity.
#CHOOSE PAINT BRUSH COLOR IN PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS FOR MAC SOFTWARE#
Is it solid color or close to it? If so, use the Magic Wand or if you want the software to guess what you're trying to select in order to help you, choose the Quick Selection tool. Incidentally, a color changing tutorial using the Magnetic Lasso tool lives here. Is it square or circular in shape? If so, reach for the Rectangular or Elliptical Marquee tools.ĭoes it have a lot of straight edges? If so, use the Polygonal Lasso tool, or if you want the software to help you, reach for the Magnetic Lasso tool. Either way, take a few moments to look at the item that needs selecting and ask yourself the following questions: Though sometimes it's easier to select the area you *don't* want to alter, and then inverse the selection to get what you do want, so just keep that in mind. There are no fewer than 100 ways to create selections in either software, so the important skill to have is knowing which tool will get you the farthest in the least amount of time.