All about Photoshop brushes explain?

Asked By Lapu lapu 230 points N/A Posted on - 05/11/2011

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I need a lot of details or information of the different types or uses of brushes. Any thoughts would do and any tutorial is well accepted. I'm looking forward to learning from you guys.

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All about Photoshop brushes explain?

When using the brushes in Photoshop, it is as if you are using a real brush wherein you can be able to draw anything with it. So various Photoshop versions manage to present distinct brushes.

When using Photoshop, there are various types of brushes and these are the Spatter, Chalk, Star, Scattered leaves and more. However, not all this brushes are available to use. If this is the case, you can simply click the small arrow beside Brushes to launch the menu with the list of all brushes available.

 

Select, for example, Assorted Brushes. You will be notified if you want to change the existing brush set or just add this brush to the current list. 

 

Creating custom brushes:

 

Before creating your own set of brush, you need to remove old brushes from the inspector. It will not remove those set of brush from the disk but only those brushes that you recently used. You can always launch it if you want. Select the brush and then right-click on it to delete it. Click OK to confirm. Repeat the same process until you delete everything.

 

How to make and identify Photoshop Brushes:

 

The two main structures that describe brushes to set the limits and how it can be a brush. Anything can be a brush.

 

1. Color – Photoshop generally used grayscale when identifying brushes. You can actually create a brush using an image with full of colors and turn your document to grayscale. In this way, you can have an idea of what you want to do. White can be transparent if the opacity is set to 0% and black can be 100% opaque. Other images can be translucent if set to 0-100%.

 

2. Size – There have to be a max size for a brush. The larger the brush is, the better. Photoshop 7.0 uses a 2500 px by 2500 px. Older versions uses 999 px. It would be best to use larger brushes so you can expand the diameter of the brush without making the image blurred.

 

There are many ways to make a brush. User can scan an image, or use a vector images or any photo. A guide below will help you in the process of making a sample brush in CS4 using a scanned ink stroke.

 

 

For more information you can refer to this site:

 

• https://myphotoshopbrushes.com/how_to_create_photoshop_brushes/

 

Install Brushes in Photoshop:

 

Download the .abr file for brushes and follow these steps:

 

1. Put the .abr file you've downloaded into the folder /Users/{username}/Library/Application Support/Adobe/AdobePhotoshop CS3/Presets/Brushes(on mac OS X) or C:Program FilesAdobePhotoshopPresetsBrushes(on Windows).
2. Open Adobe Photoshop and then click the active brush tool. Select the Palette and then click to launch the brush preset picker.
3. Select the small triangle on the upper corner.
4. Next on the list you choose 'Load Brushes'.
5. Select the .abr file under the dialog box. Choose the file that you wish to create and the new brushes will be visible in the Brush Pallete.

 

Installation guide in Adobe Photoshop CS:

 

Similar to the brushes that you use, you can also utilize several Photoshop patterns. Just download the .pat file and simply install it. To do this, follow the steps below:

 

1. Put the .pat file you've downloaded into the folder /Users/{username}/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop CS3/Presets/Patterns (on mac OS X) or C:Program FilesAdobePhotoshopPresets (on Windows).
2. Then open your Adobe Photoshop, active Paint Bucket Tool,
3. Go to option palette and change Foreground on Pattern.
4. Then click on the button, left to Mode in the toolbar, to open the Pattern Picker.
5. Then click on the little triangle in the right upper corner.
6. Next on the list you choose 'Load Patterns'.
7. In the dialog box choose the .pat file you want to load and your new patterns appear in the Pattern Palette and are just ready to use.

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Answered By Tulingan 0 points N/A #91499

All about Photoshop brushes explain?

There are a lot of things you should learn about brushes. Let's start from the different brush styles, you can change the style of the brushes in many ways. So, you can right click anywhere on the canvas and click on the small button on the upper right. You can select the different brushes from there. Another way, is to open in window bar then select brushes. You can select the different brush types here and their different settings.

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Answered By Ginamos 0 points N/A #91500

All about Photoshop brushes explain?

You can play a lot around in brushes, like changing it's opacity about to 10-20%. You can try painting digitally from this, so first, try using only black and white colors. It is easier to color it later, than to directly paint it to different colors. Paint starting from the lightest color to dark. After you have your desired result. Create a new layer and set its blending option to overlay.

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Answered By Lapu lapu 230 points N/A #91501

All about Photoshop brushes explain?

Great! Now I can do a lot of things right now! Do you still have anything in mind?

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All about Photoshop brushes explain?

Experiment it, in different ideas. Most great discoveries come from unintentional art. Have fun and let your creative mind do its part!

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Answered By Ginamos 0 points N/A #91504

All about Photoshop brushes explain?

Yeah, you can download many brushes on the internet. There are a lot of cool brushes out there. Nevertheless, you can just use your default brushes and take control of it. You can still achieve a better result with these default brushes.

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Answered By Lapu lapu 230 points N/A #91505

All about Photoshop brushes explain?

Good! I hope you guys can continue to help me whenever I have other concerns. Thanks!

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