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Photoshop’s Brush Tool – Basic Guide

Nov 24th in Tools & Tips by Alvaro Guzman

This time I've got for you a really basic guide, which is useful for beginners and people interested in learning a little bit more deeply the power of Photoshop's Brush Tool. Every single Photoshop user has dealt with the brush tool at least once, but not everyone knows how to explode its full potential.

In this guide, you'll learn how to use the brush presets, create your own brush from scratch and modify its properties, play with blend modes and pressure controls, besides some useful tricks. How much do you know about Photoshop's Brushes?

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Author: Alvaro Guzman

I'm Alvaro Guzman from Bolivia, Web developer and Graphic designer. For me digital design is a modern form of art, which allows me to explore innovative techniques, and helps to deliver a clear message to the public.My work covers advertising, corporate image, print design, and web design areas. I am currently the Design Team Leader of SouthMakers. And you can find me on Twitter @alvarocker.

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What is it?

The Brush tool is a basic painting tool. It works like a traditional drawing tool by applying the color using strokes. It's located in the standard Tool Bar and its default shortcut is the letter B.

The Brush Tool works by adding a shaped mark on a layer, and if you continue pressing the mouse button or the pen on a tablet, several marks will be added creating a stroke until you release the pressure. The essentials options for the brush tool are: Brush Tip Shape, Blending Mode, Opacity and Flow. You must understand those concepts before moving forward with the advanced settings.

Photoshop includes several built-in presets, that are in fact pre-made brushes ready to use.

Part 1 - Basics

Brush Tip

This is the most basic option for any Photoshop User, the Brush Tip settings allow you to modify the way to add colors on a Photoshop document using the Brush Tool. By clicking on the Brush Preset Picker in the default Options Panel you will see several built-in presets. On many of the presets you can easily adjust two very important values:

  • Master Diameter increases or decreases the size of the brush tip. The default shortcuts to increase or decrease are the Left Bracket key and the Right Bracket key respectively. Photoshop CS4 enables a dynamic way of doing it by Ctrl + Option (Mac) + Click or Alt + Right Click (Win) and Drag.
  • Hardness increases or decreases the brush tip's border strength, 0% means a really soft border (color fades out) and 100% a precise border. The shortcuts to increase or decrease hardness percentage are the Left Bracket key and the Right Bracket key respectively. In CS4 you can dynamically modify this value by Ctrl + Option + Shift (Mac) + Click or Alt + Shift + Right Click (Win) and Drag.

You can even combine Foreground and Background colors (we will see this feature forward). Most of the time the color that is applied by using the brush tip is the Foreground Color.

Preset Picker Contextual Menu

There are many useful tools at the Brush Preset Picker menu including Create a New Preset, Edit it, and Delete. Then there are some options to display the list of brushes in the Preset Picker panel, below there are several examples of this. Besides, you can easily Manage the Brush list by loading, saving and replacing brushes in the list, or Append one of the existing Brush collections. We will see more about preset creation shortly.

Brush Blending Modes

Each time you paint something using the Brush Tool you can chose a Blending Mode for the stroke. A Blending Mode is a way to mix the colors with the object(s) behind them using several mathematical formulas working over the RGB values of each pixel. Let's try some of them.

Modes: Normal, Dissolve, Behind and Clear

Let's review some of the basic Blending Modes.

  • The first on the list is the Normal Mode, which paints the color as is without applying any transformation to the color pixels.
  • The Dissolve Mode adds some noise at the edge of the brush stroke.
  • Behind Mode paints behind an existing stroke even if they are both on the same layer.
  • By using the Clear Mode you can delete a section of an existing stroke.

More Blending Modes

The Following Blending modes are just the same that can be applied to the Layers, below you can see some examples of blending modes, and some applications. They are fairly useful for adding color to objects (Darken, Multiply, Overlay) or add some lights (Lighten, Color Dodge). You have a lot to experiment with here, no matter how many years you have been using Photoshop, you never stop learning about Blending Modes.

Opacity

The Opacity Value is a percentage of transparency, 100% means a full color stroke, a small percentage means a more transparent painting.

3. Flow

The Flow value is a percentage that sets the rate of color applied. Each time you press the mouse button the amount of color applied is controlled by the Flow percentage, besides it cannot exceed the Opacity percentage unless you click again in the same place.

Brushes Panel

The Brushes Panel is the right place to create, edit, save and load a particular brush behavior or Brush Preset. You can customize several things here like the brush tip shape, scattering, opacity jitter, flow jitter, Background/Foreground jitter, configure controls for each variation and more.

To show the Brushes Panel go to Window > Brushes, or press the F5 key. You need to select the Brush Tool on the Tools Panel to enable the Brush Preset options.

As you can see, as soon as you show the Brushes Panel you can click over the Brush Presets option on the left and then in the main area a list of all the active brushes. Try them before moving forward in this guide, paint some random strokes using different presets and see what happens. Next we'll create a Custom Brush, and apply several variations to it.

Creating a Brush Tip from an Image

One of the most powerful features of Photoshop is the ability to create custom brushes from scratch using any image as a source. This time we'll make a brush using this image of a nice leaf.

Step 1

Open your image in Photoshop, and double-click on the "Background" Layer in the layers palette to make it editable. Then Go to the Channels panel (go to Window > Channel) and duplicate any of them (you can duplicate a channel by dragging the layer over the Create New Channel button at the bottom). I'm choosing the Green this time, then hide the other channels for awhile.

Then, With the "Green copy" channel selected hit Command + I to invert the colors, Then adjust the levels a little bit to make the leaf whiter. Finally, hit Command (Ctrl) + A to select the entire image, hit command (Ctrl) + C to copy the "Green copy" channel to the clipboard and then delete it. Remember to turn on the visibility of the RGB channel before moving forward.

Step 2

Go back to the Layers Panel, select the only layer and go to Layer > Layer Mask > Reveal All. Switch to the Channels panel again and select the Layer Mask channel added at the bottom. There hit Command (Ctrl) + V to paste the clipboard, and that's it. Now go back to the Layers panel to see how it looks.

Step 3

Now add some adjustments to the leaf, go to Window > Adjustments to show the Adjustments panel. First add a Black and White > High Contrast Red Filter, and then a Levels adjustment using the values shown in the image below. Finally, select the three layers, and merge them by pressing Command (Ctrl) + E.

Then using the Transform Controls, resize and rotate the leaf as you wish, the only restriction is that the image cannot exceed the 2500 by 2500 pixels in size. Finally, Command (Ctrl) + Click on the merged Layer miniature to select the leaf contour, and go to Edit > Define Brush Preset, type some name and voilá a brand new brush tip ready to customize.

Step 4

Once you've created the tip shape, you will see it in the Brushes Panel. You can select the brand new brush and paint some spots to see how it actually looks.

Create a Brush Preset

Now we'll review all the possible variations of a brush preset, from the brush tip to color jitters and pressure controls. The first thing that you should do by creating a Brush preset is select a brush tip from the library or, as in this case, start working with a custom brush tip. The Lock icon next to a brush attribute retains the setting even when you change your tip or preset.

Brush Tip Shape

The first thing that you can customize is the brush tip.

  1. The Diameter value is a pixel measured size of the Brush Tip, cannot be bigger than the tip image.
  2. The Flip Axis checkboxes flip the tip on its respective axis, X or Y (Horizontally or Vertically) or even both.
  3. The Angle value rotates the brush by the desired degrees.
  4. Roundness defines the elliptical roundness of the brush tip where 100% is a perfect circle.
  5. The Spacing is the percentage of space between images when you draw a stroke on the canvas, using a mouse or a pen tablet. The larger the percentage, the bigger space between color spots.
  6. Finally, you can edit the Hardness value of the tip. Anyway custom Brushes created from an image cannot modify its Hardness value, but it will work with the default round tip for instance.

Shape Dynamics

Shape dynamics enables several options to handle randomness of Size, Angle, Roundness and Flip Axis values. The larger the percentage, the more random the result. Every Jitter can be controlled using a proper hardware device like a Graphic Tablet.

Control

Many brush behaviors like Jittering and Scattering can be controlled by setting one of the options of the Control drop down. There are five Control options that you can use:

  1. Off means no control will be applied.
  2. Fade Control fades the brush stroke from the initial diameter to the minimum value in a custom number of Steps (i.e. 25 steps in the image below).
  3. Pen Pressure Varies the brush diameter by using the pen pressure values provided by the external device (a graphic tablet). Pen Tilt and Stylus Wheel works the same way but using the hardware's tilt and stylus wheel values.

Scattering

Scattering (1) determines the amount and placement of brush marks in a stroke. The higher the scattering percentage the more distribution of marks. The Both Axes checkbox enables the scattering in both X and Y axis, deselecting this option means the scattering will be perpendicular to the stroke direction.

The Count slider (2) specifies the number of brush marks, a large number means many marks. Count Jitter (3) adds some Randomness to the amount of marks on a stroke. Remember you can apply the Control options for Scatter and Count Jitter as well as in Shape Dynamics.

Color Dynamics

This option controls how the color of paint changes across a stroke. The way it works is pretty simple, it just adds some random color marks in a range between both Background and Foreground colors.

  1. The Jitter Percentage defines the randomness between the colors. There you can define a Control for the Jitter, Pen pressure, Fade, Pen Tilt or Stylus Wheel.
  2. The Hue Jitter controls the difference between the Front Color Hue and the Foreground Color Hue, the larger the percentage the bigger the difference.
  3. Saturation Jitter defines a percentage by which the Saturation of a stroke varies between Foreground and Background colors, a larger percentage means a lot of variation of the Saturation.
  4. Brightness Jitter is pretty much the same as the previous, but this works over the Brightness value. A higher percentage means a darker color increases the difference between front and back colors.
  5. Purity increases or decreases the saturation of the color.

Dual Brush

Let's change the brush tip for this one. In the following example I'm creating a peculiar brush (1) for an easy explanation of the Dual Brush. This one combines two tips to create a mixed mark. The second brush texture is applied within the brush stroke of the primary brush, only the areas where both strokes intersect are painted. You can choose a blending mode to combine the primary tip with the second, and all the common brush tips variation shown before.

Texture

Textured brushes use a pattern to make strokes look as if they are painted on a textured surface. To paint with a texture, grab one of the textures from the pop-up panel and set a percentage for the pattern Scale. You can Invert the pattern colors as well. Let's review some variations of the ways to use a texture brush.

If the Texture Each Tip checkbox (1) is selected, then each time you paint a mark a new instance of the texture will be applied (consider a brush stroke as many marks). If this is unchecked the texture will remain flowing through the stroke as a whole.

The Blending Mode option (3) blends the texture with the brush tip color and Depth (4) will increase or decrease the texture's contrast creating a depth sensation.

At last some textures enable the Depth Jitter with a variation between Depth and Minimum Depth percentages using a Control (rarely used, but you can experiment with it).

Other Dynamics

There are two options here. Opacity Jitter adds randomness to each mark's Opacity, and Flow Jitter will vary the Flow of the stroke. You can add a Control for any of them (Pen Pressure, Fade, Pen Tilt or Stylus Wheel).

More Dynamics

There are five more dynamics on the list:

  1. Noise will add some noise at the borders of the brush mark.
  2. Wet Edges creates an illusion of watercolor painting, where the borders of the stroke seem darker than the center.
  3. Airbrush simulates traditional airbrushing, so a long time pressing the click button means a bigger mark. The Airbrush option corresponds to the Airbrush option in the options bar.
  4. Smoothing, pretty useful wen you're painting in a rush, as it produces smoother curves in brush strokes. Great when you're drawing with a mouse.
  5. Finally, Protect Texture applies the same pattern and scale to all brush presets that have a texture no matter if they have different settings.

Create a New Preset Brush

Before or after modifying the brush options, you can easily save it by going to the Panel Menu and selecting New Brush Preset or clicking over the New Brush Button at the bottom of the Panel. Type a name for it and that's it!

This Brand new brush will appear now in the Brushes Panel, but if you reset the brushes library (you'll see this next) or if there's a problem with the default Photoshop's Preferences file, your brush will be lost.

Save and Load Brushes Libraries

  1. In order to keep your very own custom brushes you can save as many brush libraries as you want. Click Save Brushes in the Brushes panel to save the actual set of brushes as an ABR file (you can delete the unnecessary brushes before saving the library by clicking on the Delete icon in the panel).
  2. To Load a previously saved brush library, click on Load Brushes in the Brushes Panel menu, or double-click on the ABR file itself in your file system. Either way will append the library at the bottom of the brushes list active in Photoshop.

Besides you can click on Reset Brushes to load the default brushes list, or Replace Brushes to override the active list of brushes with a new one.

Conclusion

Even though the Brush Tool is one of the more basics features of any version of Photoshop, there is always room to experiment. Try to discover something new and exciting. I hope this guide will be useful for you!

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    tomahowk November 24th

    Awsome tutorial for the beginners out here I suppose. Very detailed and accurate!

    @ Newbies: read it, put it in your favourites and never forget it again :D (dont read noobies, since that’s not what I mean :P )

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    Isis November 24th

    I want to know what the functin for the little airbrush pen in the propertie’s bar…

    Thanks a lot for the tut!!! =D

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      Gfx-Dzine November 25th

      That’s a convenient way (read without having to access the brush panel) to toggle the Airbrush on/off – see ‘More Dynamics’, step 3.

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    Jonathan Kurten November 24th

    Wow, you just about covered everything Alvaro. Thanks for taking the time to write up such an excellent and detailed guide. This is the type of quality that makes Psdtuts+ so great!

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      Rick November 30th

      Sou novo por aqui, mas não é difícil perceber a eficiência do site. Isso aqui é muito bom pra quem quer aprofundar os conhecimentos em técnicas de manipulação e etc.

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    devdsine November 24th

    bookmarked! :)

    thanks Alvaro

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    Edison A. Leon November 24th

    long, but worth reading it all. I think I can make my own brush next time. Thank you!

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    Jake November 24th

    Great and detailed tutorial, thanks!

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    designfollow November 24th

    very very useful , big thank you.

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    yalçın November 24th

    Thank you for this detailed tutorial.

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    Dalton Hurd November 24th

    Very nice!

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    Geeee November 24th

    that’s really a great very detailed tutorial and I definitely bookmarked it and will share it with all the designers & specially the beginners. I’d like to say that you highlighted the importance of the brush tool in PS in a way that every reader can feel creative & willing to do more with this tool. Thanks a lot for the time and effort you put in that tutorial & we are hungry for more of course :)

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    Freebies-TR November 24th

    Nice tutorial, thank you for the sharing.

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    henrique November 24th

    oO
    its wonderful

    “OBRIGADO”

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    Tom Lynch November 24th

    A lot of stuff I know already, but an extremely detailed tutorial and very well written and explained

    Well done for putting in the time to write such a guide

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    ewok ewok November 24th

    hmm, running low on ideas? pinch from smashingmagazine.com
    well done.

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      spiderm0nkey November 24th

      Hmm, did you ever think that he possibly didn’t see that article and simply wanted to give a good in-depth look at brushes? You people are so quick to assume that tutorials have been ‘copied’ when you actually have no REAL proof at all. Get over it.

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        Jared November 24th

        Plus some of us don’t read smashing everyday…it’s always good to have it in more than one place. Thanks for the tut, great job!

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      Alvaro November 24th

      @ewok ewok: just let you know that this tutorial was written weeks before Smashing Magazine’s post been published… anyway SM’s article is pretty throughout and worth to read :)

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        Sean Hodge November 24th

        We plan our tutorials usually about a month in advance. thx.

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      iPad November 30th

      You can just leave PSDTuts if you don’t like it! ;)

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    xRommelx November 24th

    nice

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    p0ulpe November 24th

    Very nice tut

    thank you

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    Ben November 24th

    I’d like to think I’ve long since tested out of the beginner’s tutorials, but there were a couple pieces to that tutorial I wasn’t even aware off. Very thorough tutorial and excellently written.

    Thanks!

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    Kim Dolleris November 24th

    Nice run through. Was kinda hoping this one would reveal that PS has the same function as Gimp (i think). Where on press and hold a function key and adjust brush size and another function key for hardness. Doesnt seem like PS has it though.

    But thanks for sharing!

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      Arturo Velazquez November 24th

      for pc its alt+right click and u can change size , cant remember rite now which is for hardness

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        Kim Dolleris November 27th

        It’s in the post – i was just blind :P

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    theartist November 24th

    Wow, now that was great!
    Thanks for doing the work I’ve been too lazy to do! haha!!!!!

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    Amarelo November 24th

    PERFECT!!!!!!!!

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    James Hsu November 24th

    Great read, really appreciate the write up.

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    mira November 24th

    just – thank you. Very :) I’m beginner.

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    Kati November 24th

    Awesome tutorial. I will definitely have to play with this some. There were things I didn’t even know after using Photoshop for years. Thanks!

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    spiderm0nkey November 24th

    I think this is great. I’ve done a bit of digital painting and there were a few things that I learned from this guide! Great work Alvaro :)

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    Theo Hodkin November 24th

    Great for beginners and even professionals to revise – very handy indeed! Thankyou!

    http://www.twitter.com/ubermatik

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    Vicente November 24th

    This was really useful to me, I’ve been using Photoshop 1 year and a half and the brush, of curse xD, but I didn’t know some of the options of this tool. But with this guide is so much clear to me, thank you!

    I have a question, the options of the Brush Tool have changed a lot between Ps CS3 and CS4? I use the CS3 ^^ and I don’t know if I can use some of the ones that I’ve seen in this guide :S.

    Thanks!!!

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      michelle November 26th

      yeah it’s the same in both CS3 and CS4 =)

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    Mark November 24th

    Really useful tutorial especially for beginners

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    Fer Osorio November 24th

    This is excellent!, I would also learn a lot if you post a ‘Part 2′ of this, peraphs showing some of your design works following an efficient use of brushes? Peace

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    esranull November 24th

    good tutorial thanks http://vector.laroouse.com

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    PandaMaster November 24th

    Great for beginners. Very thorough!

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    Symon November 24th

    Just when you think you’ve progressed and know it all. Some good reminders and I have to admit, a few new tricks too. Thanks Alvaro!

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    Gotti November 24th

    You explain very well, Great tutorial !!!

    Could you make a tutorial of the Curves tool in Photoshop. ? :P

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    Tom November 24th

    Great guide and all the screen shots really helped get the point across!

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    criss November 24th

    great! i think it is very very useful for every Photoshop user~
    i’d like to try and introduce to my friends…

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    desu November 25th

    I’m beginner… Thank you Mr. Alvaro. I’m waiting for your next tuts using brush :)

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    simuse November 25th

    This is amazing ! Best tutorial on the matter.
    Who needs schools when they have psdtuts.

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    MoonBoy November 25th

    Feom the jole tutorial , I did not know only the last spet. Thank you for such a details tutorial

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    Tevin Jeffrey November 25th

    for a basic guide, ths was pretty in depth. love you guys

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    Humphrey K November 25th

    This is a Smashing magazine article. You guys need to ask for a refund

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    Gfx-Dzine November 25th

    Great information for every designer, period.

    Thanx! :D

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    el feo November 25th

    Adelante BOLIVIA!!

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    Thierry Dehove November 25th

    Thanks a lot, it’s helpful

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    Margaret November 25th

    I’ve been using photoshop for years, there’s always something new to learn. And there’s even more versatility with the brush tool when you use a tablet.

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    RoaldA November 25th

    Great article, verry helpfull! Personaly I knew all this from before, and im maybe average good with PS, so I hope you allso can come up with an advanced brush tutorial, maybe learn how to “paint” in PS.

    All the best guys! :)

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    Nelutu November 25th

    Great article :) one retweet from me :)

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    Kuba November 25th

    Thanks Alvaro.
    Simplicity above all, I say.
    A great tutorial not only for beginners.

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    Listoric November 25th

    Best brush for beginners tutorial out there.

    Thanks for sharing.

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    neil November 25th

    Not just for beginners— great for advanced users who, like me, don’t use many of the associated features shown here in our regular work.

    Clearly written, straightforward and elegant.

    Cheers.

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    Jenny November 25th

    Wow. Awesome!
    Thank you so much.

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    PSD Penguin November 25th

    when i clicked on the tutorial, I wasn’t expecting it to be that in depth.. got sidetracked from what i was doing! haha good work

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    kelly November 25th

    Thanks for the article. The brush tool is so diverse. It’s good to have an in-depth description of how it works.

    One thing I wanted to note regarding creating your own brush… I’ve found I don’t have to take all the extra steps to extract an image from it’s background so long as it has a white background. The Define Brush tool is intelligent enough to equate anything white as transparent for your brush. So… no need to put your image on a transparent background in order to create the brush. I’ll just convert my image of choice to grayscale, make level adjustments there and then define the brush when I’m done. Hope that can save people some time.

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      Alvaro November 27th

      that’s a good idea, gonna try it :D

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    PaulGeo November 26th

    Thanks so much for this great tutorial! A great reminder of all the useful techniques that can be achieved using the brush tool!

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    Vet Your Tuts November 26th

    well done!

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    Pedro November 26th

    I did not know that i could do such good things with brushes so easily.

    Thank you very much.

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    Michelle November 26th

    gr8 tutorial for newbies, I am going to share it on my blog :) thanks

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      anuj sehgal from india December 21st

      hi dear

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    Jens Bayer November 26th

    Great! Very good!

    But what i ask myself all the time: whats about the little “lock-icons” in the brushpreset dialog? does anybody know?

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      Alvaro November 26th

      The Lock icon next to a brush attribute retains the setting even when you change your brush tip or brush preset…

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    Tripper November 26th

    This tutorial was verry helpfull! This increased my knowledge a lot.
    Really clear way of explaining. Thanks!

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    Patricia November 26th

    Excelente! se agradece el gesto de compartirlo con los colegas…! you just were so humble to entitle this tutorial as a “basic guide”. I believe you gave a master class about this tricky tool!!

    thanxxxs!

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    Tess Stewart November 27th

    This is such a great tutorial! I’ve been in Web/Graphics Design for 10+ years and even though I know most of the brush attributes, I learned things from this tutorial. It’s great, Alvaro!

    New People: Seriously, take and memorize this tutorial. This is the best guide I’ve come across .. ever in my years of design.

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    Scott English November 27th

    Apologies for what appears to be a naive question, but in Alvaro’s section about creating a Brush from an Image, at the end of step 1, says “Remember to turn on the visibility of the RGB channel before moving forward.”

    How do I do this? I am having difficulty completing this part and wonder if not understand how to do this is my downfall.

    Thanks in advance!

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      Alvaro November 27th

      Just click on the RGB channel’s visibility toggle (tiny eye), on Channels panel

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        Scott English November 27th

        Oh, now I feel slightly sheepish. Thanks Alvaro! I am finding the tutorial most informative!

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    vashstampede November 27th

    awesome and great tutorial… you really rocks….

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    Scott English November 27th

    When I attempt to do a levels adjustment in Step 3 of creating an brush from an image, a third layer isn’t created as shown :(

    Any direction on what I might be doing wrong would be appreciated.

    Thanks in advance!

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    original art November 27th

    Awesome basic brush tutorial, sometimes even with advanced techniques its great to go back to basics. Will definitely use more basic techniques in my next Photoshop art project.

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    Bob November 28th

    Amazing, thanks

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    Photon November 30th

    Thanks for this great tutorial, really helped a lot. Got to know a lot of stuff I didn’t before.

    Hopefully(wishfully), you’ll cover every aspect of Photoshop! =D

    Now it’s time to experiment and kickass!

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    Rudra December 1st

    Wow!!
    Outstanding Tutorial!!

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    dorjin December 1st

    you taught me lot of thing .. i really like u a lot…
    i am a very BIG fan of yours

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    Roberto Maldonado C. December 1st

    Excelente tutorial, muy buen trabajo!!!!

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    Marcelo Oliveira December 2nd

    Clap Clap Clap!

    Very Very Nice! excellent work

    OBRIGADO!

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    ANURAG December 3rd

    W@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@W

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    Danilo Di Aggri December 3rd

    EXCELENTE…!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Con todo respeto, ni Evo podrá hacer nada mejor que lo tuyo Alvaro. Felicitaciones. Excelente Trabajo….
    Daniel l Rosario l Argentina

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    bike locks December 4th

    Great tutorial, really helpful, and going to be useful in the near future.

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    Yasser December 5th

    Finnaly an accurate “manual” for brushes, great, thanks…

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    Ant December 6th

    I still don’t get, what is difference between flow and opacity; never used flow though.

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    Trevor December 6th

    I am old and new to Photoshop and this was just what the doctor ordered, many thanks.

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    very thankss

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    Ali December 7th

    thank you

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    zen-x December 7th

    Muy buen tutorial, esta muy bueno para los recien iniciados en el mundo del photoshop, y sirve para aclarar varias cosas :D

    Muchisimas gracias!!

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    Photoshop Desk December 8th

    Awsome

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  80. Photoshop’s Brush Tool – Basic Guide

    good brush downlaod thanks..

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    Metin Ucar December 14th

    Good job. The tutorial is very comprehensive and accurate. For the beginners like me, this is really helpful.

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    Fionna December 15th

    Can anybody tell me where to click to change the levels on step one of how to create a custom brush from an image. I’ve been looking around for 15 minutes now and still can’t find it! :p

    Awesome tutorial by the way! I’m learning so many new things already!

    thanks =)

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    Samoo December 15th

    Really love this kind of articles.

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    pakaworld January 7th

    When i saw it first i thought it will be easy for me to understand and practice it but that is not easy.

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