Photoshop® CS4 All-in-One For Dummies®

Part IV. Painting, Drawing, and Typing

Like a Swiss Army knife, Photoshop does it all. This book describes all you need to know about Photoshop's drawing and painting tools. I first give you the lowdown on the ubiquitous brush. The brush — which is found not only in the Brush tool itself but within several other painting and editing tools — has more variations than you can shake a stick at. I also cover how to create vector shapes with the Shape tools and how to fill and stroke your selections with color. If one color is not enough, keep reading until you get to the section on gradients and patterns. I give you the steps for using the many Photoshop presets and also for creating your own gradients and patterns. Rounding out this section will be an introduction to the new 3D Tools. And finally, because man doesn't communicate by images alone, you can find lots of useful information about creating type. Not just regular old run-of-the-mill type, mind you (which is covered of course), but type on a path, type with shadows and bevels, type filled with images, type warped into shapes — you get the ...um ...picture.