Using the painting tools
- The Paintbrush tool creates soft strokes of color.
- The Pencil tool creates hard-edged freehand lines.
The Paintbrush tool and the Pencil tool let you paint the current foreground color on an image. The tools create different effects:
To use the Paintbrush tool, Pencil tool:
- Specify a foreground color. (See Choosing foreground and background colors.)
- Select the Paintbrush tool
or Pencil tool 
. - Do the following in the options bar:
- Choose a preset brush. (See Working with brushes.)
- Specify a blending mode. (See Selecting a blending mode.)
- Specify an opacity. (See Specifying opacity, flow, strength, or exposure.)
- For the Pencil tool, select Auto Erase to paint the background color over areas containing the foreground color. (See Using the Auto Erase option.)
- Do one or more of the following:
- Drag in the image to paint.
- To draw a straight line, click a starting point in the image. Then hold down Shift, and click an ending point.