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...