The Brush Panel and Using a Tablet
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The Brush Panel and Using a Tablet

on Jul 27th 2011 with 34 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Estimated Completion Time: 20 Minutes

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This entry is part 2 of 25 in the Digital Art for Beginners Session
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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 2: The Brush Panel and Using a Tablet will explain the most important options in the brush palette, explain the differences between a mouse and tablet for digital art, and will also explain the differences between the Wacom line of tablets and which ones are right for you. Let’s get started!

 
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Martin is a Hungarian graphic designer, digital artist and an Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor (Design Master). He is currently teaching and working in London but usually travels around the UK and share his love for Adobe products and graphic design. You can follow him on his blog or on Twitter.  

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  • hmwdev

    Size & Hardness for PC is just Alt + Right Click :)

  • http://flavors.me/grinblo Evgenia Grinblo

    Great tutorial. Thank you! I believe that ctrl+alt+cmd in CS4 enables the brush hardness option rather than the color wheel as in CS5. Is there a way to access the color wheel you showed here in CS4?

  • http://www.pixelglow.ro SeeL

    Very good material. I can wait the next tutorial in this series. Thank you.

  • http://www.wix.com/gtello/portfolio Gustavo

    Thank you for this great series. I also would like to know if there is a way to access the color wheel in CS4?

  • Trevor

    Great Tut. again, thanks Martin

  • http://www.yesimadesigner.com Martin Perhiniak
    Author

    Hi guys,

    Thanks for the great feedback, unfortunately the HUD colour picker is only available in CS5. Thanks ‘hmwdev’ for the correction about the PC shortcut!

    Cheers,
    Martin

  • http://worldsdmovies.blogspot.com/ MD.Khairul Alam

    Thanks for video

  • Diseno

    Why is the color picker not coming up for me? Im using CS5 on PC and all I get is the double arrows for duplicating when i do crtl + alt + shift

    • hmwdev

      Check Preferences->Performance you need to enable OpenGL Drawing as Martin said in the tutorial. And you need to Right Click when holding Ctrl + Alt + Shift.

  • http://kreatiwow.weebly.com Nagendra

    Awesome TUT for a beginner on Tablet, Thanks mate for such a great TUT.

  • http://www.photoshopwarrior.com/ PhotoshopWarrior

    Awesome Tut. The video was well instructive :)

  • Petr

    This tutorial is great but btw: I still can’t find some usable tool for checking of brush – files. I have about 50 files and always when I am looking for something it is horrendous. Any idea for nice app? THX

    • john

      Agree with you. I usually rename brushes with more descriptive names, splatter_1, splatter_2, clouds_1, etc. Keeps them alphabetized too.

  • Gyca

    Is there a way to download the video for offline use?

    • Sudhir

      Yes, a simple easy way for you is to search google Internet Download Manager, once installed, restart your browser (i am using FireFox) and once you start the video, simple hover your mouse towards the top left window, a text saying “Download with IDM appears) click this and click OK, there is no need for converting.

      Friendly tip, choose HD before clicking and then look for the largest filesize.

      Hope that helps.

      About the tut, am loving these. Looking forward to making something basic (i never dew so this is a huge step for me :) ).

  • 3dinfo

    PLEASE MORE MORE MORE MORE TUTRIALS

    VERY VERY GOOD TUTORIALS

  • Rahmat

    Hi Martin
    You are great and your works are verey usefull and helpful

  • Jeff

    Martin you are a GOD! Appreciate your skills and experience. Keep it up and thanks to psd.tuts

  • http://twitter.com/podlipny CJHornster

    What about using IPAD I know it hasent presure sensor, but could it be use it too?

  • stralle92

    What presets do you suggest using with wacom pen buttons?
    Can’t wait for another video, its really helpfull.

  • http://www.lostyetidesign.com Richie

    Found these pencil brushes for CS5 that are super realistic. Feel the power of the tablet with these! Thought I’d share with you. I’m sure illustrators/artists would appreciate these. I love them!

    http://vfxworkshops.com/shop/digital-realistic-pencil-brush-pack/

    Thanks,
    Richie

  • kellyswee

    I found this tutorial very useful! Very carefully explained and attentive to details. Thanks! Looking forward to use my wacom tablet! :)

  • http://twitter.com/dianagraphics Diana

    Excellent video! The best I´ve seen about brush settings, wich wacom tablet are you using? I see good pressure levels on my bamboo too

  • Gary

    Fantastic tutorial, thank you very much!

  • wu

    great! but I can not see it. How can I see it?

  • Mirishka

    Ive been using photoshop for about 18 months…ive just upgraded to cs5…got a bamboo tablet…and i love them both…Your tutorials are the best…most informative…and you do not prattle on about how wonderful you are or try to advertise yourself…which is the common fault on most of the youtube tutorials ive found! I am going to continue through the full series of lessons because even on the first lesson, i learned something from you! THANK YOU!

  • http://www.nichterdesign.com Ed

    Enough with the Chevy commercials, Christ almighty.

    • http://psd.tutsplus.com/ Grant Friedman

      Hey Ed, we just disabled ads on all the video tutorials. Hopefully, you won’t have this issue any more.

  • Rebekah Evans

    Would really like to watch this. Just stumbled across the series, and really liked the first video. This isn’t playing though. :(

  • Daniel Katranov

    Martin,
    Could you please tell me what tablet do you use?

    • http://www.devilgang.in Rahul Parekh

      I think he mentioned using an intuos and a bamboo.

  • http://www.emaarworkx.com Ammar

    I don’t understand how would u use flow and air pressure in a piratical sense?

  • jwjb

    Could not get the Blend Mode > Behind, to work so I checked with Adobe at: http://goo.gl/sRTK9 and my layer has Lock Transparency deselected as they suggested, but nothing happened when I used this mode.

  • Ramon Blanquer

    Thanks! Your explanations are the best ones by far! :-)