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Hi, I'm Gary for Expert Village. Now that our new image has been created the size of
our business card, we're going to first create a type of background color that's going to
be our base to work with. The way we do that is we first select the color. Now we have
two boxes over here. One box represents the color of the foreground, and one box represents
the color of the background. Now we're going to apply the color to our image. We're going
to be use the color--be using the color of the foreground, so I'm going to for my--for
the business card that I want to create, I want to make it a little bit of a kind of
a off-white or gray--grayish type of background to work with, so I'm going to choose that
color. As I double-click on the square, this color-picker window opens up, and I can choose
by clicking on the square or on the color bar, I can go ahead and choose which color
I want to work with. So I'm going to choose a kind of off-white/gray, I'm going to hit
"ok", and now we see that that color appears in the foreground box, and I'm going to click
on my paint bucket, which is, like a paint bucket would, which is dump a whole bunch
of paint on a surface, and that's exactly what it's going to do. I'm going to take my
paint bucket, and I'm going to click onto the surface, and it's going to create everything
that gray color I had chosen in the color-picker window. We want to put a little bit more texture
into the background, so what we're going to do is use our paintbrush tool, which is over
here, and once our paintbrush tool is selected we can go over here and actually choose the
type of brush we want to use. Now we see a whole bunch of different types of textures
and imprints from each type of brush. I'm going to use a bit of like a splattering type
of mark on--from the brush, and I'm also going to change my color to create more of a--bit
of a darker orangish yellow, and we see that that color appears here in the box. So now
I'm ready to use my paintbrush tool, and we see the splash mark that I chose, from the
brush that I chose, and I'm just going to click around and create some texture to the
back of my image. Each time--each mark is one click of the mouse, and if I hold down
the mouse a little bit longer, it creates a darker image. And if I move the mouse a
little bit, and hold it down, it's going to create like a smudge mark, as if I was painting.
So I'm just going to click around, and this is going to complete the paintbrush, the coloring
effect for texture, but we're going to apply one more effect before we're done, before
we begin to add text and images.