Personalized with Photoshop brushes

Making custom brushes is one of the easiest things in the world. Seriously! I don't know why I read a few tutorials that make it to be this many, to intimidate the process. Create your own brushes allows to customize your works of art and Photoshop work environment.

The rigid part

"But... you said that this would be easy! Technically, Yes, but I found that some people actually reached a stone of stumbling just when you try to imagine what would make a good brush. Well, the answer is anything! I have leopard brushes fuzzy slippers, bananas, old trash cans, swatches of fabric, dirt... of the hundreds of things. It allows to have a scanner or a digital camera... which really opens up your opportunities. Just a quick walk around your House could yield tens of fun textures you can make brushes of. But even if you do not or the other, you can often snurch some textures right off the coast of the internet. Try a search on google for the marble tiles and see what comes up. Sometimes, you'll get a pleasant to work with big image. I do not endorse stealing someone's art photo to rip off with a brush, but if it is just a picture of the tile, or tissue sample or screen or any who, I think it's perfectly... you'll be radically change the image in the next steps in any event.

The next steps

OK, so you have some good textures then? Right, let's make a custom brush of em! Open your image in Photoshop. The first thing that you want to do is to desaturate the image (Shift + Ctrl + U in PS7). Then, cut and paste what you have in a new layer. Now delete the background layer. Once you're up to just the single layer, mess with the brightness/contrast until you get the desired effect (this requires that you think a little bit of how you can use the brush in the future - will be you be willing to use it as a "grunge" effect... something more technical... etc. etc.)

[http://www.jvmediadesign.com/blog/img/tutorials/brush_tut1.jpg] (The image of departure)

[http://www.jvmediadesign.com/blog/img/tutorials/brush_tut2.jpg]
(Image désaturée)

[http://www.jvmediadesign.com/blog/img/tutorials/brush_tut2.jpg]
(After messing with the brightness/contrast)

Part Super easy

Now that you have the image to research as you want, you need to create as a Photoshop brush. Go "Edit", then choose "set the brush". Enter a name for your new brush and that's it! Easy, huh?

Save your hard work

There is little worse than have hundreds of cool brushes gone in an instant. He came to me on one occasion when my hard drive fried and did not save all my custom stuff in Photoshop. I will help you to avoid any tragedies and you say how to save your brushes.

Once you have an amount of brushes made (I personally as create "sets" of brushes all kinds of work together, or just happened to fit my mood this day here!), go in "edit" and then select "Manager of preset." A window with all of your current brushes will be displayed. You can click on each little square individually. What you will want to do is shift + click with the right button on the set of brushes that you want to save. Once you have made, click on "save Set", give a name to all and save it on your computer (of course these brush files are what you will want to save!). There, you're done!

How to get to other brushes custom in your palette

If you have found a cool brush set on the web and you want to use, after you have downloaded the file (usually a zip file), you may want to extract in your Photoshop brushes/directory. To load a brush in Photoshop, open the Palette of brushes ("Windows", "Palettes" and "Show brushes"). Select load brushes from the brush Palette menu and choose your file. That's all!

Sherry is the lead designer and creative director at the California southern, jv media Designstudio.