Photoshop brushes

[Loathsome]

I've done the best I can only using the preset brushes that PS has and it's finally starting to annoy me.
I know that a lot of artists are making their own brushes but this is something I never even touched before.

So if you have any tips on how to make a decent brush (for painting nothing too fancy) please do share.
It'd be great, I need to get my painting more flexible.

Thanks!



[size=]Oh and, I did search for this on anipedia and youtube. Anipedia had no articles and youtube just had those silly things like "HOW TO MAKE A FOOT IN PHOTOSHOP, IT'S AWESOME, IT'S ALMOST NOT AS SHITTY AS PS STARS!!!!!"[/size]

[rtil]

i couldn't live in photoshop without having my own brushes. the only default brush i still use are the round hard circles, but i still change them often.

i'll make a graphic version of this tutorial later. in fact, i've been meaning to make a section dedicated to tutorials on tba. but for now this will do

two things you should know:
how to use the brushes panel. windows > brushes. this really shouldn't be that hard to figure out. shape dynamics, scattering, texture, dual brush, color dynamics, other dynamics. as you tinker with them there will be a preview of what the brush looks like. spending 15 minutes in here will give you a good idea of how powerful this panel is. and this is where we seperate the mouse users from the tablet users - the brushes panel is a lot weaker without abilities like pressure sensitivity, etc.

how to make your own brush texture. make a new file, throw a texture in or start painting or whatever you want your brush to look like. white = transparent, black= opaque. supports gradation. when you're done, go to edit > define brush preset. now it's in your brushes. for now it's just a basic brush which will evenly spread the brush you made, so you'll probably want to tinker with the settings in the brushes panel. if you like a brush a lot and don't want to have to re-do the settings every time, go to the tiny button on the top right hand corner of the brushes panel, click it and the menu will open. select "new brush preset" and it will save a copy of your custom brush. you can delete the old one now by right-clicking on it and selecting delete.

[Loathsome]

Thanks a lot, I'll play around with this for a while now

[shura]

if you go to deviantart and do a search for "photoshop brushes" you can find some cool brushes to download

[99]

Sasha gave me the link for a pretty nice set of nebula brushes a while back, thanks again Sash!

[RobHalford]

if you go to deviantart and do a search for "photoshop brushes" you can find some cool brushes to download

be wary though because there's a metric ton of shit lying in there too.

[Loathsome]

Man there's so much shit on there it's hard to say what's good or not.
I guess making your own as you go along is the best way to do it.

[Daveb0t]

i've been thinkin of making my own brush to mimic my pen but id rather try new programs before that

[texas]

i stopped using brushes made by other people because it feels kind of cheap
i dont know its much more satisfying when its 100% yours

[Jeinu]

i have another question on this kinda

whenever you save a new brush preset like this, does it just save it to whatever brush packet/folder you currently have open ? sometimes i lose brushes i just created and can't figure out where they went when i had saved them.

[rtil]

it saves them while you have that brush set open, and you can close and open photoshop as many times as you want and they'll still be there. but if you don't physically resave the brush set in the menu options and then open a new brush set w/o appending it, you'll lose the custom ones. kinda weird but that's just how it works

[Loathsome]

Yeah I noticed just that a while ago.
Pretty damn annoying.

[Jeinu]

ok then, that must have been how i lost the old ones, thanks

[Loathsome]

oh wait
so there is no way to copy one brush into another set?

[rtil]

when you open a new brush set it should ask you if you want to append it to the current set or not

[kyothine]

huh? Can't you just open the brush set and click on that little papery icon in the corner and a popup will show up saying "create new brush"?

[rtil]

yep, i believe i mentioned that. it takes just as many steps to do that as it does to go to the edit menu anyway

[funzop]

wait i can make my own brushes in photoshop now

[rtil]

you've been able to do that since like before you were born n00b

[funzop]

i knew that ASSHOLE!!!!!!!!