# About painting tools

The Editor workspace in Photoshop Elements provides a variety of tools for applying and editing color. When you select a painting tool, the option bar displays a variety of preset brush tips and settings for brush size, paint blending, opacity, and airbrush effects. You can create new brush presets and save them in brush libraries. You can customize the brush and settings for any of the painting and editing tools and manage them using the Preset Manager.

Brush options in the options bar

A.
  Brush pop‑up palette and brush thumbnail
B.
  Brush size pop‑up slider and text box
C.
  More menu

The Brush tool paints smooth, anti-aliased lines. Other painting tools include the Pencil tool for making hard-edged lines and the Eraser tool for erasing color pixels from layers. The Paint Bucket tool and Fill command fill areas of your image with color or patterns. The pattern Stamp tool paints with one of the predefined patterns or a pattern that you design.

The Impressionist Brush tool affects existing color by applying stylized brush strokes. The Smudge tool also affects existing image colors by simulating the action of dragging a finger through wet paint.

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