Using Brushes
Elements has several types of what I class as artists' brush tools. These are the Pencil tool, Brush tool, Impressionist Brush tool, and the Color Change tool.
The Pencil tool, all alone on its own peg on the Tool Bar, is possibly the least used of all of Element's many tools because, as I mentioned previously, unless you are a skilled graphic artist experienced with a pen tablet, it's very hard to use.
Brush behavior
Despite the fact that Elements is mostly a photo editing program, many of its tools rely on the use of a brush (and in my opinion, brush-based tools such as Dodge and Burn are some of the most creative in Elements).
But it doesn't end there—you can also find real brushes to paint, sketch, draw, and illustrate, either on top of an existing image or on a blank canvas. And, of course, this capability comes with a staggering range of brush types and options, all of which we will look at over the following pages.
On top of the expected hard and...
