Photoshop
Painting
About Painting and Drawing
There are distinct differences between painting and drawing in Photoshop. Painting involves applying colour to pixels in the image. Painted areas can have soft edges. Drawing, on the other hand, generates hard-edged, anti-aliased vector shapes.
With painting, the paint applied to an image is merged with any paint underneath it on the same layer. Editing painted pixels can be very difficult. Vector drawings, however, remain as separate objects that can easily be moved and resized at any time with no loss in quality.
In this module, we'll be looking at the painting tools, fills, strokes, gradients and patterns.
We looked at presets when discussing the Swatches panel but in this module we'll examine all aspects of tool presets, including the Preset Manager. This knowledge will be applicable to many of the tools you'll be learning about in the course.
About Painting and Drawing Summary
- Painting involves applying colour to the image's pixels.
- Drawing involves creating vector shapes.
- Painted areas can have soft or hard edges while drawn objects will have hard, smooth edges.
- Drawn shapes remain as separate objects that can be moved, edited and resized without affecting the rest of the image.
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