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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2023

You're reading from   Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2023 Bring out the best in your images using Adobe Photoshop Elements 2023

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803248455
Length 510 pages
Edition 5th Edition
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Robin Nichols Robin Nichols
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Color keys FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Photoshop Elements Features Overview 3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Photoshop Elements from Scratch 4. Chapter 3: The Basics of Image Editing 5. Chapter 4: Getting Started with Simple Solutions 6. Chapter 5: Easy Creative Projects 7. Chapter 6: Advanced Techniques: Transformations, Layers, Masking, and Blend Modes 8. Chapter 7: Advanced Techniques: Retouching, Selections, and Text 9. Chapter 8: Additional Tools and Features 10. Chapter 9: Advanced Drawing, Painting and Illustration Techniques 11. Chapter 10: Exporting Work, Sharpening, and Plug-ins 12. Chapter 11: Troubleshooting, Additional Techniques 13. Chapter 12: Feature Appendix 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

The Paint Bucket tool

The Paint Bucket tool, as its name suggests, works like a real bucket of paint. Choose a color from the Toolbar Color Picker, click the image, and it will throw a bucket of color across the image. OK, so your beautiful landscape is now all black (or whatever color was picked up in the Picker). By default, Paint Bucket has several adjustments:

  • Opacity (which works as if you are watering the "paint" down).
  • Blend Mode (which affects how the paint color reacts with the pixels it's poured over).
  • Contiguous mode (which means it only affects similar-colored pixels if they are adjoining to other).
  • Tolerance (which dictates how sensitive it is when identifying similar-colored pixels over which it spreads). The default number of 255 means the paint covers the entire image regardless of what you clicked. Set to a smaller value, such as 15, and it only affects pixels that are very similar in tone to the ones initially clicked.
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