Creating Custom Brushes
Tutorial Details
- Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Estimated Completion Time: 24 Minutes
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
Photoshop is an excellent tool for manipulating photographs but it can also be used as a means to create stunning digital art. This tutorial is part of a 25-part video tutorial series demonstrating everything you will need to know to start producing digital art in Photoshop. Digital Art for Beginners, by Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor, Martin Perhiniak will begin by teaching you how to draw in Photoshop. At the conclusion of this series you will know all you need to produce your own concept art and matte paintings in Photoshop.
Today’s tutorial Part 3: Creating Custom Brushes will explore the true potential of the Brush Panel. We will demonstrate how to draw our own brush tip shapes and save them as custom brushes. We will also learn how to use tool presets to store and quickly select specific options for Photoshop tools, like the brush. Let’s get started!
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Martin, you are awesome..thank you…
As usual great Tut. keep them coming please
Another great tutorial. Love it. Wacom tablet ordered and on it’s way. Wanted one for a while, but now I’ve seen these tutorials I can justify buying one, because I’ll actually learn to use it properly – look forward to the next tutorial.
Also want to note, that the keyboard shortcuts are really useful, please keep reminding us of them.
Ps. I wanted the basix one, and now I move masking.
^ Ps. I watched the basix tutorials, and now I move masking.
nice post! it is great pleasure to visit your site. thanks!!
Just awesome …. hope we will see this kind of work more in near future.
keep it up buddy
I’ve followed all your tutorials, They are a great help.. Thank you
Thank you so much , I love your tutorials !
thank you for this tutorial!!!!I made my 1st set of brushes today and thanks to you
This one is very useful, a lo of people ask me to share brushes with them..I think creating bush set isn’t that hard, this post is worth sharing though.
sir, it very nece tutorial for poor people. like me i am very much interested in photo shop learning
and i want to make it my profession as job ,
i much happy about this ” psd tuts+ “, please carry on this website for those people who are want to become a
profession,
thanking you,
moizuddin ansari,
hyderabad,
INDIA.
Very nice tutorials so far, everything is explained in great detail. I love it, but I wonder if I’ll be able to follow the upcoming tutorials without any drawing skills…
Link to set-up-photoshop-documents-composition is broken. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
you are awesome..thank you very much.
Please !!! I have a doubt, if anyone could reply I’d appreciate. When I’m using brushes and I decide to change the size or the opacity of the brush using shortcuts my PS doesnt shows the “red preview” of it. I went in the view option and I cant select this either.
I watched all of urs videos and they are great ! Keep it up.
Thx in advance.
I forgot to ask….
How I could do to activate this feature ????? This was working before, but I had to reinstall the PS again.
Thx
I found out that I need to turn on the GPU option to make that works.
Cya
Cool! Thank you for these tutorials, really helped me understand painting!
Nice! I really like the colour dynamics and now creating brushes is one of my favourite things to do in photoshop!Thanks a lot!!!
Thanx for the tutorials. so helpful. Really wanted to learn how to use a tablet properly and your lessons are invaluable. So many times I see great stuff produced and wonder will I ever be able to do the same?
Every time I do one of your tutorials, I feel I am getting a little closer to my goal!!
Hi. Great tuts – all of them for this series.
I think I am missing something, but I can’t figure out that shortcut for the color picker. I thought you had said ctrl+alt+command, but that doesn’t do anything.
Thank you
@ vmyselfandi
I’m assuming you’re referring to the Heads Up Display (HUD) color picker, in which case that would be SHIFT + ALT + RIGHT CLICK on the pc and Control + Opt + Command on the mac.
The video’s dont work for me, what am I doing wrong?
Thank you very much for this !
I will be able to make my own christmas stripe !
Greetings from france
This one is very useful, a lo of people ask me to share brushes with them..I think creating bush set isn’t that hard, this post is worth sharing though……