Welcome
to the second tutorial about creating custom
brushes in Photoshop!
Rickard (who did the awesome first tutorial)
and I decided to create a little tutorial
series about brushes in PSP 7 and CS.
This
tutorial will take you through the creation
of natural brushes in Photoshop 7, such as
watercolor, pastels or japanese tusche brushes.
Those are easy to create but make work a lot
more simple. Natural brushes can be used for
digital painting and for painting textures.
If you read Rickards tutorial about custombrushes
in Photoshop, than you should already know
the basics of creating brushes.Therefore I
won't tell you every detail, but just give
you an overview of the brush editor and a
short description for every brush.
In
this second tutorial we will create a japanese
tusche brush and a basic brush. You can see
examples of all brushes below: Japanese tusche,
watercolor, a basic brush, oil pastels and
pastels.
"The Jpanese Ink Brush"
For
this brush I used a pretty small, round, basic
shape and I adjusted the "Shape Dynamics",
added some texture and tweaked some values
in the "Other Dynamics" window.
The result is a clean but fairly rough stroke,
like the one of a tusche brush.
"The Basic Brush"
This
brush can be used for simulating acrylics
or any other painting method that uses a brush.
It's basically made up of a big dotted shape
which is used both for the "Brush Tip
Shape" and the "Dual Brush"
tip shape. If you cant find the texture for
this brush in the "Texture" window,
than you have to load it from the Photoshop
texture library. Simply press the button in
the upper left corner of the window and click
"Load Pattern".
I hope this tutorial helped you, to create
your own natural brushes in Photoshop - thanks
for viewing.
Special thanks go to Rickard who did all of
the design for this tutorial.
