How To Use A Brush To Draw A Straight Line Cone

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April 7, 2022
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In PS Elements left clicking a brush followed by Shift+Click in another location will draw a straight line.

In Lightroom its possible to left click the adjustment brush, then enlarge the brush with the arrow keys, then Shift + Click to draw a straight line cone. This is useful, for example, when painting on dramatic light rays.

I would love to use a brush to draw a straight line cone in PS Elements using the shift + click method. I have tried withgout success. Is this possible? Your advice would be appreciated.

Kind regards

Chris

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Glenn 8675309

Legend

Light ray brushes are pretty nice...

https://www.brusheezy.com/brushes/61713-free-sunshine-photoshop-brushes-7

Chrisn NAuthor

Inspiring

Thank you Glenn. They are pretty cool!

Kind regards

Chris

Greg_S.

Community Expert

I'm not sure if I fully understand you with respect to how you are drawing the cone. But, you can create a Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer and use a brush to paint the light cone on the mask. You can use shift-click to draw a straight line on the mask. Here is a crude example. (The lines are not completely straight because I quickly filled in the cone between the lines.)

Chrisn NAuthor

Inspiring

Thanks Greg. Yes, that is an acceptable work-around. I was hoping though, that there was some way to use the same method that works in Lightroom*. Evidently that may not be possible in PS Elements.

Kind regards

Chris

*Matt Kloskowski -Brushing In Light with Lightroom
(See this technique two minutes into the video)
www.yout-ube.com/watch?v=3brfb3Ta3aA

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