Chapter 17

Working with Brushes

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Chapter Goals

You can use brushes with many different tools, and you have an abundant number of options to create and use a huge number of different brush tips. In this chapter, you learn how to do the following:

  • Adjust brush options

  • Manage brushes

  • Create custom brushes

  • Load brush sets

  • Brush on Layer Masks

  • Apply brush effects

  • Apply brush patterns

Brushes are an important asset when editing photos. You use brushes to refine Layer Masks that ultimately refine selections. You use brushes to paint color. You use brushes to lighten and darken areas of a photo. You use brushes to create selections, remove skin ...

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