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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS2

User Guide

with the lighting of the surrounding pixels; or choose On to blend the strokes with the color, lighting, and shading

of surrounding pixels. Select the Aligned option to sample pixels continuously without losing the current sampling

point, even if you release the mouse. Deselect the Aligned option to continue using the sampled pixels from the initial

sampling point each time you stop and resume painting. See also “To use the Stamp tool in Vanishing Point” on

page 383 and “To use the Clone Stamp tool” on page 366.

Brush tool Paints a selected color on the image. Double-click the Brush Color swatch to open the Adobe Color

Picker and select a color, or select the Eyedropper tool and click in the preview image to specify a brush color. Drag

in the image to paint. Shift-drag to constrain the stroke to a straight line. You can customize the brush tip by entering

values for the brush size (Diameter) and the size of the tool’s hard center (Hardness). Specifying the Opacity deter-

minestowhatdegreethe selectionobscuresorreveals theimage beneathit. To paintwithablendingmode, usethe

Healing menu: choose Off to prevent the strokes from blending with the colors, shadows, and textures of the

surrounding pixels; choose Luminance to blend the strokes with the lighting of the surrounding pixels; or choose On

to blend the strokes with the color, lighting, and shading of surrounding pixels.

The Brush tool honors marquee selections and can be used to paint a hard line along edge of the selection. For

example, if you select an entire plane, you can paint a line along the perimeter of the plane.

Transform tool Scales, rotates, and moves a floating selection by moving the bounding box handles. Its behavior

is similar to using the Free Transform command on a rectangle selection. You can also flip a floating selection

horizontally along the vertical axis of the plane or flop a floating selection vertically along the horizontal axis of the

plane. Alt-drag (Windows) or Option-drag (Mac OS) a floating selection to tear off a copy of the selection. Ctrl-drag

(Windows) or Command-drag (Mac OS) a selection to fill the selection with a source image. See also “To transform

freely” on page 363.

A B C

Transform tool options

A. Original selection B. Flip C. Flop

Eyedropper tool Selects a color for painting when you click in the preview image. Click the Brush Color box to

open the Adobe Color Picker.

Zoom tool Magnifies the view of the image in the preview window. Click or click-drag to zoom in. Alt-click/drag

(Windows) or Option-click/drag (Mac OS) to reduce the view of the image in the preview window.

Hand tool Moves the image in the preview window. Drag in the window to move the view.