Photoshop: Customizing Brushes
1h 21mAdvanced2016-05-18
Authors
John Derry
Digital painting pioneer and original author of Corel Painter
Course details
Photoshop ships with lots of great brushes, but it's way more fun and interesting to create and customize your own. In this course, John Derry shows you how to get a whole new range of artistic options for your work with Photoshop's brush-making features.
John begins by going over some important brush tips that many artists are unaware of: bristle, erodible, and airbrush tips. He talks about how to customize the brushes and use them to mimic natural bristle brushes, chalk, and spray paint. He also addresses some global issues such as paint flow and spacing, which can have a dramatic impact on any brush you create.
From there he jumps into some more advanced techniques, such as blending colors, loading brushes with multiple colors, and using Brush Projection. Use these tips together to extend the toolset and maximize your creative freedom in Photoshop.
Learning objectives
What brush do you want to create?
Designing brush tips
Painting with bristle tips and erodible tips
Simulating spray paint with airbrush tips
Saving brush presets
Blending color
Enhancing fidelity with dual brushes
John begins by going over some important brush tips that many artists are unaware of: bristle, erodible, and airbrush tips. He talks about how to customize the brushes and use them to mimic natural bristle brushes, chalk, and spray paint. He also addresses some global issues such as paint flow and spacing, which can have a dramatic impact on any brush you create.
From there he jumps into some more advanced techniques, such as blending colors, loading brushes with multiple colors, and using Brush Projection. Use these tips together to extend the toolset and maximize your creative freedom in Photoshop.
Learning objectives
What brush do you want to create?
Designing brush tips
Painting with bristle tips and erodible tips
Simulating spray paint with airbrush tips
Saving brush presets
Blending color
Enhancing fidelity with dual brushes
Skills covered
Image EditingPhotoshopPhotographyAdobeDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
- 02 - Using the exercise files
- 03 - Installing custom content
1. Choosing Brush Tips
- 04 - What brush do you want to create
- 05 - The illusion of continuous strokes
- 06 - Designing a captured brush tip
- 07 - Painting with a captured brush tip
- 08 - Mimicking a brush with a Bristle tip
- 09 - Painting with Bristle tips
- 10 - Replicating chalk with Erodible tips
- 11 - Painting with Erodible tips
- 12 - Simulating spray with Airbrush tips
- 13 - Painting with Airbrush tips
2. Advanced Features for Greater Sophistication
- 14 - Saving tool presets vs. brush presets
- 15 - Implying a surface with texture
- 16 - Blending color with the Mixer Brush
- 17 - Loading a brush with multiple colors
- 18 - Distorting a tip with Brush Projection
- 19 - Enhancing fidelity with dual brushes
Conclusion
- 20 - Next steps