The tools for drawing
Drawing takes place on a selected layer. If several layers are selected, drawing takes place on the layer placed highest on the Layers Panel. If the working layer does not have a selected area, drawing is allowed on the entire layer. If there is a selected area, the drawing is allowed only within this area.
To draw with the foreground color, hold down the left button of the mouse. To draw with the background color, hold down the right button. To switch to the eyedropper, hold the Alt button down and click on the image.
The following tools are available for drawing:
- Brush tool. The Brush tool is used for drawing an image with a selected color. The current color overlays the previous one.
- Pencil tool. The Pencil tool is used for drawing an image with a selected color. The process results in replacing the pixels of an old color with the pixels of a current color.
- Eraser tool. The Eraser tool is used for drawing an image with the transparent color.
- Line tool. The Line tool is used for drawing a line on an image.
- Color Fill tool. The Color Fill tool is used for filling the adjacent pixels of similar color with the color of a selected pixel.(Color Fill)
- Text tool. The Text tool is used for creating or editing a text layer. (Creating a text layer)
- Gradient tool. The Gradient tool is used for creating a gradual blend among multiple colors. A gradient fill can be either created or chosen from presets. (Gradient Fill)
- Replace Color tool. The Replace Color tool is used for changing the color of a pixel.
- Clone Stamp. The Clone Stamp tool is used for taking a sample of an image for later reuse on the same image.