Photoshop: Customizing Brushes

Create your own Photoshop brushes and get a whole new range of artistic options for your work.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files
• Installing custom content

1. Choosing Brush Tips

• What brush do you want to create?
• The illusion of continuous strokes
• Designing a captured brush tip
• Painting with a captured brush tip
• Mimicking a brush with a Bristle tip
• Painting with Bristle tips
• Replicating chalk with Erodible tips
• Painting with Erodible tips
• Simulating spray with Airbrush tips
• Painting with Airbrush tips

2. Advanced Features for Greater Sophistication

• Saving tool presets vs. brush presets
• Implying a surface with texture
• Blending color with the Mixer Brush
• Loading a brush with multiple colors
• Distorting a tip with Brush Projection
• Enhancing fidelity with dual brushes

Conclusion

• Next steps