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4 Photoshop Brushes & Shapes

Shapes

Photoshop has several shape tools - rectangle, ellipse, rounded rectangle, polygon, line & custom shapes. Each of these has options that you can customize - tool mode, blend mode, opacity, path operations, etc.

Brushes

The brush tool also has many options - Tool preset, Brush preset, Blend Mode, Opacity, Flow, Airbrush, Pressure Sensitivity. The brush tool has it's own panel as well - Brush & Brush Presets.

Drawing in Pixels

You'll create a basic postcard using the Shapes and Brush tools & options. Save it as a PSD file for editing, and a JPG when you are finished: #_lastname_postcard

Watch and follow along with these videos:

Turning it in

Update the Photoshop page of your Canvas ePortfolio with the following information and let me know when you have completed it so that I can check it for a grade. Refer back to this video if you don't remember how to embed an image in the page.

The NEWEST post goes at the TOP of the Photoshop page. The oldest is at the bottom.

  1. Title of the challenge
  2. Answer these questions and/or complete the sentence stems:
    1. Drawing shapes using the pixel is mode is challenging because______________.
    2. The hardest thing about using the brush tool is ___________.
  3. Insert the JPG image(s) that you created in this challenge (postcard and brushes)