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Photoshop Painting Tools: Brushes, Stroke Command, Gradients

Learn about Photoshop's painting tools, working with custom brushes, gradients, and stroke command with these free online tutorials. Photoshop's paint engine changed drastically in Photoshop 7, so painting tutorials for older versions may not apply to Photoshop 7 and later.

Create a Custom Brush

Learn how to define a custom brush in Photoshop (any version) and get tips for using and working with custom brushes.

Dotted Lines With Photoshop - Paintbrush Method

Many advanced options are hidden in Photoshop's Brushes palette. By adjusting the spacing we can create a custom brush to make dotted lines. This method uses guidelines and the paintbrush tool.

Dotted Lines With Photoshop - Stroke a Path Method

This method of drawing dotted lines in Photoshop uses a path and the paintbrush tool.

A Closer Look: Photoshop's New Paint Engine

By David Nagel for Creative Mac: "I'd like to take a closer look now at the entirely redesigned paint engine introduced in Photoshop 7... Photoshop has always been about editing, compositing and effects. With the new paint tools in Photoshop 7, however, this changes."

Different Strokes

An in-depth look at the Brush Stroke filters included with Photoshop 5.

Gradient Fills

Learn the basics of working with gradient fills in Photoshop.

One Pixel Brush

Learn how to create a one pixel brush for those times when you want to erase one pixel at a time without getting fuzzy edges.
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