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Brushes
- Draw a straight brush line
- Define your own brush
- Modify an existing brush
- Try it! Experiment with brushes
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CIS 421 ›Photoshop>Brushes
Brushes
Draw a straight brush line
- Open a new image
- Click the brush tool on the tool bar
- Select a brush size in the brush options bar
- Click on the image at the starting point of the line
- Hold down the shift key and click somewhere else on the image file
- Photoshop draws a straight line between the two points
To define your own brush
- Download figure.jpg and open in Photoshop
- Select an area on a photo-- say the face--with one of the selection tools--say the circle marquee in the toolbox
- The foreground and background colors in the toolbox will be the colors in your brush so change them if you want to.
- Click Edit>Define Brush Preset and give it a meaningful name (face)
- Click the Brush Tool on the toolbar to select it.
- Click the Brush dropdown menu on the tool options bar to see your brush at the bottom of the list
- Select your brush
- To change the characteristics of your brush open the Brushes Palette.
Open Photoshop's Brushes Palette
- Open Brush Presets Palette (Windows>Brushes or F5)
- Click the Brush tool on the toolbox to be able to define a brush
- Open the brushes palette in the palette well at the top right of the tool options bar
- Brush Palette lets you define/redefine your own brushes or variations on Photoshop brushes.
- Click any of the characteristics at the left to change predefined brushes or define a new brush
- Check mark has to be checked to enable settings
Modify an existing brush & create your own version of it
- Select brush in toolbox
- Open brushes palette
- Select preset brush you wish to modify.
- Rightclick on it and select New Brush
- Give brush a new name
- Modify in brushes palette
Try it! Experiment with brushes
Download stpauls.jpg
- Open in Photoshop and save with a new name.
- Create a duplicate layer
Select parts of image and paint on them with different brushes
- Select the water in the duplicate layer of the image
- Select a section of the painting with the magic wand
- Do layer>layer via copy to create a new layer
- Select the contents of the new layer
- Select a painting color
- Select the paintbrush in the toolbox
- Change paintbrush tool options (e.g., opacity, mode, flow
- Open brushes palette and select a paintbrush
- paint that section of the image
- Repeat with another section of the image
- Experiment with blending modes