Sample Images for Demo

• Woman's Face (healing brush)
• Cuzco (patch brush)
• Iranian Missles (clone stamp)

Modification Keys

• 
  Shift to constrain
  • Left or right drag stays on the horizontal
  • Up or down drag stays on the vertical
  • Diagonal drag stays on 45degree angles
  • Drag on a handle, shape retains aspect ration/proportions
  • Create a new shape, it stays a square or a circle instead of an ellipse or rectangle
• 
  Option to pick color
• 
  Command to move layer
• 
  Spacebar to move canvas
• 
  Control for popup menu of brushes
• 
  "[" and "]" increases/decreases brush size
• 
  "<" and ">" (or "," and ".") moves through brush palette
• Cool trick: click once with most tools, then shift-click again and a straight line is drawn between the two points by the tool
  
  
  

Healing Brush

Spot Brush

• Spot Healing
• Healing
• Patch Healing
• Red-eye

Brush

Pencil vs. Brushes

vs.

Brush: Properties Control Panel

• 
  Tool Presets
• 
  Brush Presets
  • More than 60
  • Taken from Corel Painter
  • Infinite variety = time-vacuum
• Blending Mode
  • Key modes
    • Normal
    • Darken/Lighten
    • Difference
    • Hue, Saturation
• Opacity
  • It's not like reality
  • Won't overlap on a single mouseDown
• Flow
  • Allows overlap on a single mouseDown
• Airbrush

Clone Tool

• Clone Stamp
  • Similar to Spot Healing Brush and Healing Brush
• Clone Pattern
  • Used to paint patterns from existing pattern sets
  • 
    Get more patterns from pop-up in control panel

History

• History
  • 
    Use the History Panel to make a snapshot first
• Art History
  • Wacky tool...
  • Lots of adjustments to play with in the Control Panel

Erase

• Eraser
• Background Eraser
  • Use control panel to adjust
  • Erases specific colors
• Magic Eraser
  • Like Quick Select tool, but automatic
  • 
    Before
  • 
    After

Paint Bucket/Gradient

• Paint Bucket
  • Works in adjacent similar colors
  • 
    Before and after
• Edit gradients
  • Works on entire layer or within a selection
  • 
    Double-click on gradient selector to open Gradient Dialog
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Blur/Sharpen/Smudge

• Blur
• Sharpen
• Smudge

Dodge/Burn/Sponge

Traditional darkroom tools

• Dodge - Decreases contrast
• Burn - Increases contrast
• Sponge - Sucks out saturation

Pens

• Shape Layers vs. Paths
  • 
    Set with the control panel
  • 
    
    Use as selection method with the Paths Panel and the Mask Panel
• Direct selection with command key

Text/Text Mask

• Horizontal Text
• Vertical Text
• Horizontal Text Mask
  • Useful for making text which is filled with an image or texture.
  • Use with
    • "Paste Into" from the Edit menu
    • Adjustments from the Image menu
    • Filters
• Vertical Text Mask

Select

In a strange location in the UI. Should be under the Pen tool or within the Pen tool

• Select Path
• Direct Select

 

Shapes

• 
  Set fills and strokes in Control Panel
• Rectangle
• Rounded Rectangle
• Elipse
• Polygon
• Line
• Custom
  
  

3D

I know pretty much nothing about these...

Palette menu

• New, Duplicate, Delete
• Blending Options
• Grouping
• Layer Masks from selection

Too many to cover, but here's a few important ones

• Artistic
• Easiest to just enter the Filters window with any Artistic, Brush Strokes, Distort, Sketch, Stylize, or Texture filter
• Add filters with "New effect layer"
• Beware of creating images that look like "out of the box photoshop"
• Blur/Gaussian Blur
• Add Noise/Despeckle/Dust & Scratches
• Others:Offset
• Remember that you can limit the effect with a selection

• Scale, Rotate, Flip
• Skew, Perspective, Distort, Perspective
• Warp

• Levels
• Hue/Saturation

• History palette
• Snapshot
• Options
• Linear vs. non-linear history
• Trash can icon deletes individual action in non-linear history
• Actions
• Default actions
• Build your own