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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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