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Book V: Painting, Drawing, and Typing ...................... 281
Chapter 1: Painting and Drawing with Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .283
Introducing the Pencil and Brush Tools ...................................................283
Drawing with the Pencil tool ...........................................................284
Painting with the Brush tool .............................................................285
Getting artsy with the Impressionist Brush ...................................288
Creating a custom brush ...................................................................289
Creating Shapes ...........................................................................................295
Drawing a shape .................................................................................296
Drawing multiple shapes in a shape layer ......................................299
Specifying Geometry options ...........................................................299
Editing shapes ....................................................................................301
Chapter 2: Filling and Stroking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .303
Filling a Selection with a Solid Color .........................................................303
Filling Options and Tips ..............................................................................305
Pouring with the Paint Bucket Tool ..........................................................305
Stroking a Selection .....................................................................................307
Working with Multicolored Gradients ......................................................309
Applying a preset gradient to a selection .......................................310
Customizing and editing gradients ..................................................312
Adding transparency to a gradient ..................................................316
Managing and Saving Gradients .................................................................317
Working with Patterns ................................................................................317
Applying a preset pattern .................................................................318
Creating a new pattern ......................................................................319
Chapter 3: Working with Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .321
Understanding Type Modes .......................................................................321
Understanding Different Kinds of Type ....................................................322
Exploring the Type Tools ...........................................................................322
Entering Point Type .....................................................................................323
Entering Paragraph Type ............................................................................324
Using the Options Bar .................................................................................325
Editing Text ..................................................................................................328
Rasterizing the Type Layer ........................................................................328
Masking with Type ......................................................................................329
Stylizing and Warping Type .......................................................................333
Playing with type opacity .................................................................334
Applying  lters to type ......................................................................337
Painting over type with color ...........................................................337
Warping your type .............................................................................338