This tutorial will get you more involved with the brush tool, options and the brush palette.

To bring up the brushes palette you can toggle the window here in the upper right corner of the options bar (when you are on a brush tool).

You can also choose to open it from the Window menu as shown (checkmark means that is already open).

When using brushes be aware of the what’s going on in the layers palette. You’ll almost always want to make sure that you are on a new layer if you’re going to do some painting. Create a new layer by pressing the new layer icon that looks like a white piece of paper on the bottom of the layers palette.

You can choose a foreground color from any of the color choosing methods such as the swatch palette.

The foreground color is the color that you will paint with (until you change it).

You can choose brushes from the brush palette or the drop down menu in the options bar. The brushes palette gives you lots of options. Remember that you can only work with it when you are on the brush tool (B).

Take a look at the brush palette and scroll down to see the different kinds of brushes that you can choose to work with. Simply click to highlight one. On the bottom you’ll see a display of what the brush looks like (in black).

Remember that the foreground color is the color which you will ‘paint’ with. It is located here.

You can change it easily by clicking on the color picker to bring up the dialog box (yet another way to choose color).

To paint just click and drag. See how ‘basic’ this is? This was around since Photoshop -1.0

There are some pretty cool brushes, just scroll through and find some.

You can get a preview of the actual brush size when you increase or decrease the diameter by moving the cursor outside of the dialog box (once it gets too big to show in the preview display window).

You can also adjust the spacing of brushes. In the Basic Photoshop video training tutorials I show you how to make your own custom brushes out of anything.

See what happens in the layers palette if you just keep switching brushes and foreground colors, they’ll all end up on the same layer unless you create a blank invisible layer on which to work with.

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