The PhotoShop Brush engine.

The brush engine of Photoshop is a powerful tool and can be the key to simulate real paint. But in the wrong hands it can create awful things, making your pictures not look like painted, but just like they were done in Photoshop really bad. Especially when using prefabbed brushes, where you don’t understand how they are working. So it’s always better to build your own brushes that suit your needs as best as possible.

The Photoshop brush engine allows you to create your own brushes, starting from a brush tip shape that can be just a circle or a sampled image. This shape is repeated along the stroke. To avoid this looking boring, Photoshop gives you some tools to vary these shapes along the line to get a more complex look.

continue

Related posts:

Photoshop Brushes - Top 10 Releases for Summer 2008. There are quite a few trends in web design right now. Some still use a lot of twirly flowerly ornaments, others, following the trends dictated by psdtuts.com and abduzeedo.com have proceeded to glowing lines...

Photoshop Brush Tool Cheatsheet “ This month’s tiny cheatsheet contribution covers shortcuts and tricks for Photoshop’s Brush Tool:” On there own, these small quick-reference guides are handy to have around. But stay tuned as we add more each month....

Design a business card in photoshop tutorial Document Business card size: 3.43″ x 1.93″ 87mm x 49mm 1028 x 579 pixels Create rounded rectangle using Rounded Rectangle Tool. Fill it with light color. In order to create volume effect I used...

Fantasy light effects in Photoshop Fantasy art scenes are usually handled with a liberal sprinkling of Photoshop plug-in fairy dust – but you don’t have to slavishly follow that route. By creating your own brushes in Adobe Illustrator, and...

How to design and use your own background brushes in photoshop tutorial. This Photoshop tutorial by SweetBeat will show you how to design and use your own background brush Making the brush -Make a new document 60×37cm and make sure that the foreground and background colours...

Using Ink Drops in Your Digital Compositions Photoshop tutorial. We all love Photoshop and its effects, but sometimes it’s great to get your hands dirty when creating elements for your graphics. Ink drops can add a creative and energetic element to your designs....

Design a Surreal Floating Eiffel Tower Scene In Photoshop Creating a surreal scene in photoshop. In this tutorial, I will show the steps I took to design this absolutely magical, floating Eiffel Tower scene in Photoshop. The inspiration of this tutorial came from...

LightRoom 2 Adjustment Brush In the last post I wrote about LR2’s Graduated Filter. The other localized editing tool, which many think might be the most significant addition to LR2, is the Adjustment Brush [AB]. The AB (keyboard...

Retouching a Studio Portrait in Photoshop Tutorial This Photoshop tutorial is written for experienced Photoshop users and will show you unique techniques for retouching photos. You’ll learn how to enhance backgrounds, dodge and burn, brighten eyes, and add hair shine while...

Create custom 3d artwork for your designs photoshop tutorial In this tutorial we’re going to make custom 3d artwork in photoshop that we can implement in our logo’s, banners, flyers … any custom design - Open new document 20×20cm - Change foreground color...