Photoshop Brushes

In Photoshop there is two way to select the brush tool.

1. By selecting the brush icon of the toolbar on the left of the window of the program.

2. By simply pressing “B” on your keyboard. B for Brush in other words.

Additionally, at the options bar at the top, you can change the setting of the brush tool such as hardness and size. Or change the brush size by pressing the “[” or “]” on your keyboard.

In Photoshop, while setting up documents, you can:

• name the document
• change the height and width of the document (also change the units of measurement)
• change the resolution of the document to get the best quality of the image
• change the background of the document (in case of the need for a transparent document)

3 industries that would use Photoshop are:

• Graphic designers
• web developers
• production artist

The process I used to paint my elephant:

1. I created a default photoshop document and created a sketch of the elephant proportions (shown by the light lines in the left image).
2. I drew the line work of the elephant making sure the brush settings were at 100% for hardness making it a strict tool and make the elephant work rough.
3. I coloured the elephant with 0% harness on my brush to give this sketchy effect to it, the edges of the brush have a fuzzy or fade like effect.

With each of these processes, I created a separate layer as to no merge parts of my work on top of each other. This really helps to organize your work in photoshop

How can shortcuts help when working digitally?

Shortcuts allow a user to get to tool or settings faster by a simple combination of buttons being pressed. This can make a user work a lot faster without as many pauses in their work.

What colour system do you use when working digitally?

It entirely depends whether you are print off this work or leaving as a digital file.

when printing your work should be in CMYK as the colour will be fit for printing in ink. While working digitally you can work in RGB which focuses on red, green and blue.