So far you’ve learned about brushes that behave pretty much as brushes do in the real world—they paint a stripe of something, whether that’s color, light, or even transparency. But in the digital world, a brush doesn’t have to be just a brush. With some of Elements’ brushes, you can paint stars, flowers, disembodied eyeballs, gravel, or even rubber ducks with just one stroke, as shown in Figure 12-10.