User's Manual

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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS2
User Guide
To copy textures between tools
When you specify a texture for the current tool, you can copy the texture’s pattern and scale to all tools that support
textures. For example, you can copy the current texture pattern and scale for the Brush tool to the Pencil, Clone
Stamp, Pattern Stamp, History Brush, Art History Brush, Eraser, Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools.
❖ Choose Copy Texture to Other Tools from the Brushes palette menu.
To clear brush options
You can easily clear all brush options for a tool using the Clear Brush Controls command.
❖ Choose Clear Brush Controls from the Brushes palette menu.
To set brush pressure sensitivity for digitizing tablets
Set brush sensitivity if you are using a pressure-sensitive digitizing tablet, such as the Wacom® tablet.
1 Select the Brush tool , the Pencil tool , or other painting tool in the toolbox.
2 Click the Brushes tab to bring the Brushes palette to the front or, if the palette isn’t open, choose Window >
Brushes.
3 To make thetooltip size change with pressure,selectShape Dynamics (besuretoclick theword, notjustthe check
box) in the Brushes palette. Then choose Pen Pressure from the Controls menu under the Size Jitter slider control.
4 To make the opacity change with pressure, select Other Dynamics. Then choose Pen Pressure from the Controls
menu under the Opacity Jitter slider control.
Note: Y
oucan setpen pressure for otherbrush characteristicsaswell. TheBrush palettecontainscontrolsthatvarythe
angle, flow, scatter, texture depth, and roundness of the stroke according to pen pressure.
See also
“About the Brushes palette” on page 474
“Brush shape dynamics” on page 479
Creating and managing preset brushes
To create a new preset brush
Youcan save acustomizedbrush as apresetbrush that appearsinthe Brushespalette, BrushPresetpicker, andPreset
Manager.
Note: N
ew preset brushes are saved in a Preferences file. If this file is deleted or damaged, or if you reset brushes to the
default library, the new presets will be lost. To permanently save new preset brushes, save them in a library.
1 Customize a brush.
2 Do one of the following in the Brushes palette or Brush Preset picker:
• Choose New Brush Preset from the palette menu, enter a name for the preset brush, and click OK.
• Click the Create New Brush button .