Chapter 8: Advanced Drawing and Painting Techniques
This chapter will look at some of the more esoteric functions that you'll find in Elements. I use the word esoteric simply because these features are more graphic than photographic, more illustrative than documentary; however, as you'll see here, these features can be used to create standalone designs, or they can be incorporated into your day-to-day photography projects to produce outstanding results.
The main topics that will be discussed in this chapter are as follows:
- Illustration – drawing and painting techniques
- The View menu
- Using a graphics tablet
- Using brushes
- Brush behavior
- Drawing a sphere from scratch
- The Impressionist Brush
- The Color Replacement Tool
- Working with Brushes
- Importing and using Custom Brushes
- Custom lightening brush exercise
- Adobe vectors – using Adobe clip art
- Creating custom vector illustrations
- Working with effects filters...
