Photoshop Tutorial for Beginners: How to Use Drawing Tools – Tool Tutorial

In the previous course, we learned the two basic concepts in Photoshop, namely selection and layer (layer mask), as well as other contents derived from them, such as color adjustment. You may be confused that we have not listed channels as “key points”. This is because although channels are useful, they do not affect most productions if they are not used at all. Therefore, channels are not used very frequently in practice, especially In web design, channels are rarely used. In future courses we will also encounter the “vessel” of Photoshop: paths. After learning the path, everyone will have complete design capabilities, and our course will also enter the Illustrator part.
Related articles: Getting Started with Photoshop: Installation and Use of External Patterns
Some of the many tools located in the toolbar have already been used, namely the selection tool, move tool, and brush tool. These are the three commonly used tools.
The function of the marquee tool is to create a selection. Use it if you need to create a selection.
The move tool should be the most commonly used because it is needed for image layout. This is not limited to movement, but also combinations with keys such as CTRL and SHIFT (such as selecting layers, etc.).
Although the brush tool is a drawing tool, there are not many opportunities to be used for “direct effects” such as drawing images. Instead, it is more commonly used for “indirect effect” operations such as modifying masks.
In this lesson, we will introduce each tool located in the toolbar. Although there are not many opportunities to use them, their effects are irreplaceable. Sometimes you need to use them to do some “finishing” operations. Due to the large number of tools introduced, the undergraduate content will appear fragmented compared to previous courses. Text tools will be covered in future lessons.
The first is drawing tools.
Speaking of such tools, everyone will definitely think of the brush we learned earlier, Pencil, and History BrushThey fall into this category. Tools in this category are located between the first and second horizontal lines on the toolbar. Other drawing tools include: Spot Healing Brush Tool, Healing Brush Tool, patching tools, red-eye tool, color replacement tool, imitation stamp tool, pattern stamp tool, eraser tool, background color eraser tool, Magic Eraser Tool, Gradient Tool, paint bucket tool, blur tool , sharpening tool , smear tool , Dodge Tool, deepening tool , sponge tool.
It should be noted that drawing tools have brushes in use, and the effects produced by different brushes are also different. If you are not clear about the settings of brushes, you may encounter errors during the use of drawing tools. An incomprehensible phenomenon. So please make sure you have a good grasp of what we covered in Course #03.
Before explaining how to use the new tool, we first need to understand patterns. Patterns will be used in several tools you will learn later. In Photoshop, patterns, like brushes, are a “global” definition that can be called through multiple tools or in multiple ways. It is memorable and reusable. We must first learn how to define patterns.
The process of defining a pattern is very simple. Open an image and use the rectangular marquee tool to select an area, as shown on the left below. Then go to [Edit > Define Pattern] and a setting box will appear where you can enter the name of the pattern. As shown below on the right. After confirmation, the pattern is stored.
NeedIt is important to note that the selection must be made with the rectangular marquee tool and cannot be feathered (either before or after selection), otherwise the function of defining the pattern will not be available. In addition, if you define the pattern directly without creating a selection, the entire image will be used as the pattern.
You’ll learn how to define seamless tiling patterns later in this lesson.

Remember when we were learning brush definitions, did we come into contact with brushes with special shapes such as maple leaves and thatch? They are also defined in this way. The difference is that the pattern defined as a brush can use a selection of any shape and can use feathering. After creating the selection, you can complete it through [Edit > Define Brush Preset]. As shown below.
The value below the pattern is the width of the pattern after it is defined as a brush. Although you can change the brush size yourself in the brush settings, the best quality is achieved by using the original size. Because the brush defined in this way also belongs to the dot matrix format, enlarging or reducing will cause pixel recalculation and affect the quality (enlarging will cause blurring, shrinking will cause the loss of details). The “Use Sample Size” button in the brush settings will return it to the original size. If you follow the example here, it will return to the width of 86 pixels.
Note that the pattern defined as a brush will be automatically converted to grayscale, because the brush cannot have the original color, otherwise it will cause conflicts in the use of colors. Because when drawing, the color of the drawing is defined by the foreground color.
In Illustrator, the pattern defined as a brush can choose to retain the original color, or choose to change the pattern color with the selected color. You can also combine the selected color with the pattern color to create a new color. However, due to the different image foundations of Illustrator and Photoshop, it is more complicated for Photoshop to achieve this effect. But as time goes by, new versions of Photoshop may add this feature.
Now that we have learned how to define it, how do we use it after defining it? In fact, the pattern defined as a brush will be immediately applied to the current brush settings. It can also be found in the “Brush Tip Shape” in the brush settings 〖F5〗 in the future.
However, ordinary patterns are “no trace” after being defined, and it seems that they don’t know where to find them. It will only appear when using pattern tools, such as the pattern stamp tool we will talk about below , patch tool , paint bucket tool . Their common feature is that there are pattern options and pattern lists in the public column. In addition, the pattern can also be called in the “Pattern Fill” item of the layer style setting.
We explain ordinary pattern definitions and brush pattern definitions together because they are similar, but you should remember clearly the differences between them. First of all, in the definition step, the brush brush pattern will be converted to grayscale but the normal pattern will not. Secondly, in terms of calling, the brush pattern, as the name suggests, is used in the brush settings, so that all tools applied to the brush can be used. Ordinary patterns can only be used in the above ways.

In the previous course, we learned the two basic concepts in Photoshop, namely selection and layer (layer mask), as well as other contents derived from them, such as color adjustment. You may be confused that we have not listed channels as “key points”. This is because although channels are useful, they do not affect most productions if they are not used at all. Therefore, channels are not used very frequently in practice, especially In web design, channels are rarely used. In future courses we will also encounter the “vessel” of Photoshop: paths. After learning the path, everyone will have complete design capabilities, and our course will also enter the Illustrator part.
Related articles: Getting Started with Photoshop: Installation and Use of External Patterns
Some of the many tools located in the toolbar have already been used, namely the selection tool, move tool, and brush tool. These are the three commonly used tools.
The function of the marquee tool is to create a selection. Use it if you need to create a selection.
The move tool should be the most commonly used because it is needed for image layout. This is not limited to movement, but also combinations with keys such as CTRL and SHIFT (such as selecting layers, etc.).
Although the brush tool is a drawing tool, there are not many opportunities to be used for “direct effects” such as drawing images. Instead, it is more commonly used for “indirect effect” operations such as modifying masks.
In this lesson, we will introduce each tool located in the toolbar. Although there are not many opportunities to use them, their use effects are also irreplaceable.Substitute. Sometimes you need to use them to do some “finishing” operations. Due to the large number of tools introduced, the undergraduate content will appear fragmented compared to previous courses. Text tools will be covered in future lessons.
The first is drawing tools.
Speaking of such tools, everyone will definitely think of the brush we learned earlier, Pencil, and History BrushThey fall into this category. Tools in this category are located between the first and second horizontal lines on the toolbar. Other drawing tools include: Spot Healing Brush Tool, Healing Brush Tool, patching tools, red-eye tool, color replacement tool, imitation stamp tool, pattern stamp tool, eraser tool, background color eraser tool, Magic Eraser Tool, Gradient Tool, paint bucket tool, blur tool , sharpening tool , smear tool , Dodge Tool, deepening tool , sponge tool.
It should be noted that drawing tools have brushes in use, and the effects produced by different brushes are also different. If you are not clear about the settings of brushes, you may encounter errors during the use of drawing tools. An incomprehensible phenomenon. So please make sure you have a good grasp of what we covered in Course #03.
Before explaining how to use the new tool, we first need to understand patterns. Patterns will be used in several tools you will learn later. In Photoshop, patterns, like brushes, are a “global” definition that can be called through multiple tools or in multiple ways. It is memorable and reusable. We must first learn how to define patterns.
The process of defining a pattern is very simple. Open an image and use the rectangular marquee tool to select an area, as shown on the left below. Then go to [Edit > Define Pattern] and a setting box will appear where you can enter the name of the pattern. As shown below on the right. After confirmation, the pattern is stored.
It should be noted that the selection must be made with the rectangular marquee tool and cannot be feathered (either before or after selection), otherwise the function of defining the pattern will not be available. In addition, if you define the pattern directly without creating a selection, the entire image will be used as the pattern.
You’ll learn how to define seamless tiling patterns later in this lesson.

Remember when we were learning brush definitions, did we come into contact with brushes with special shapes such as maple leaves and thatch? They are also defined in this way. The difference is that the pattern defined as a brush can use a selection of any shape and can use feathering. After creating the selection, you can complete it through [Edit > Define Brush Preset]. As shown below.
The value below the pattern is the width of the pattern after it is defined as a brush. Although you can change the brush size yourself in the brush settings, the best quality is achieved by using the original size. Because the brush defined in this way also belongs to the dot matrix format, enlarging or reducing will cause pixel recalculation and affect the quality (enlarging will cause blurring, shrinking will cause the loss of details). The “Use Sample Size” button in the brush settings will return it to the original size. If you follow the example here, it will return to the width of 86 pixels.
Note that the pattern defined as a brush will be automatically converted to grayscale, because the brush cannot have the original color, otherwise it will cause conflicts in the use of colors. Because when drawing, it is throughThe drawing color is defined by the foreground color.
In Illustrator, the pattern defined as a brush can choose to retain the original color, or choose to change the pattern color with the selected color. You can also combine the selected color with the pattern color to create a new color. However, due to the different image foundations of Illustrator and Photoshop, it is more complicated for Photoshop to achieve this effect. But as time goes by, new versions of Photoshop may add this feature.
Now that we have learned how to define it, how do we use it after defining it? In fact, the pattern defined as a brush will be immediately applied to the current brush settings. It can also be found in the “Brush Tip Shape” in the brush settings 〖F5〗 in the future.
However, ordinary patterns are “no trace” after being defined, and it seems that they don’t know where to find them. It will only appear when using pattern tools, such as the pattern stamp tool we will talk about below , patch tool , paint bucket tool . Their common feature is that there are pattern options and pattern lists in the public column. In addition, the pattern can also be called in the “Pattern Fill” item of the layer style setting.
We explain ordinary pattern definitions and brush pattern definitions together because they are similar, but you should remember clearly the differences between them. First of all, in the definition step, the brush brush pattern will be converted to grayscale but the normal pattern will not. Secondly, in terms of calling, the brush pattern, as the name suggests, is used in the brush settings, so that all tools applied to the brush can be used. Ordinary patterns can only be used in the above ways.

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