The Pencil and Brush tools are very much alike, except that the Pencil tool has hard edges by default and the Brush tool can have soft, feathered edges. The Pencil tool also has the ability to erase itself!
You can do all the following with the Pencil tool:
- Drag the mouse to draw freehand lines.
- Click at one point, release the mouse button, and then Shift+click at a second point to draw a straight line between the points.
As long as you keep the Shift key depressed, you can keep clicking to draw straight lines between each of the points.
- Click, hold down the Shift key, and then drag up or down to draw a perfectly straight vertical line. Drag left or right to draw a perfectly straight horizontal line instead.
- Hold down the Alt key (the Option key on the Mac) and click in any area of your drawing to switch the foreground color to that hue.
- Choose the Auto Erase option in the Options bar to activate the Auto Erase feature.
Auto Erase is a handy feature that lets you remove portions of your pencil strokes without switching to the Eraser tool.
When you have Auto Erase turned on, the operation of the Pencil tool is slightly different from the default. The effect of either of the following actions is that Photoshop erases lines you've drawn:
- When you click in any area of the drawing other than an area that is foreground colored (for example, the pencil lines you've already drawn), the Pencil tool begins drawing a line in the foreground color (this is the default mode.
- When you click in any area of the drawing that is foreground colored (such as the pencil lines you've drawn), the Pencil tool draws by using the background color.
Because the Pencil tool doesn't use soft-edged lines to draw, anything other than straight vertical or horizontal lines has rough, jagged edges. Jaggies aren't objectionable in many cases, especially in higher resolution images, but if you zoom in on an area containing pencil lines, the jaggies will be readily apparent.
You can do all the following with the Pencil tool:
- Drag the mouse to draw freehand lines.
- Click at one point, release the mouse button, and then Shift+click at a second point to draw a straight line between the points.
As long as you keep the Shift key depressed, you can keep clicking to draw straight lines between each of the points.
- Click, hold down the Shift key, and then drag up or down to draw a perfectly straight vertical line. Drag left or right to draw a perfectly straight horizontal line instead.
- Hold down the Alt key (the Option key on the Mac) and click in any area of your drawing to switch the foreground color to that hue.
- Choose the Auto Erase option in the Options bar to activate the Auto Erase feature.
Auto Erase is a handy feature that lets you remove portions of your pencil strokes without switching to the Eraser tool.
When you have Auto Erase turned on, the operation of the Pencil tool is slightly different from the default. The effect of either of the following actions is that Photoshop erases lines you've drawn:
- When you click in any area of the drawing other than an area that is foreground colored (for example, the pencil lines you've already drawn), the Pencil tool begins drawing a line in the foreground color (this is the default mode.
- When you click in any area of the drawing that is foreground colored (such as the pencil lines you've drawn), the Pencil tool draws by using the background color.
Because the Pencil tool doesn't use soft-edged lines to draw, anything other than straight vertical or horizontal lines has rough, jagged edges. Jaggies aren't objectionable in many cases, especially in higher resolution images, but if you zoom in on an area containing pencil lines, the jaggies will be readily apparent.
Finding Out What the Pencil Tool Does in Photoshop
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