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Photoshop's advanced painting tools

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Photoshop's advanced painting tools

As I believe I've mentioned before, I approach Photoshop from the perspective of a graphic artist. That is to say, I regard photographs as raw materials for my final designs, but if you're a photographer, we're not so far apart. If you'll forgive me, you aren't trying to capture the world the way it really is. Even then casually employed, the camera does that without your help. Your job is to show us the world as you perceive and imagine it. In other words, as an artist sees it. Enter Photoshop's Advanced Painting tools. Although designed by engineers, the Advance Painting tools are artistic inventions designed to emulate traditional brushes. And because this is Photoshop, they let you paint with photography. The image becomes the palette for your imagination, which brings me to this. This is a Wacom Intuos, or more generally, a state-of-the-art drawing tablet with a pressure sensitive stylus; combined with Photoshop, you can draw as easily with this as with the pen on a piece of…

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