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Making Marks / Art History Brush




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Another type of History brush we can use is the Art History brush. And that's under the History brush tool - if you press and hold you can go down and choose Art History brush. And it looks a lot like the history brush, but it has little swirl instead of an arrow. And what this tool does is it adds strange artful marks as opposed to painting back from a history state. It does paint back from a history state, but through this special filtered brushing type of effect. So to give you a demonstration, I am going to fill my image with a solid color. And you can see that my History brush, currently the state it will draw from, is the original opened image - which is just fine. Here are my options for my History brush - the Brush size, Mode and Opacity. These are exactly the same as other brushes. But for the Art History brush we have some other options. We can choose what kind of style of mark we want to use, and I will just start with a Tight Short, see how that looks. (The) Fidelity slider determines how close to the original source color the marks will be when they are laid down. The Area determines how big of an area from where I am painting it will lay down the marks. And Spacing slider determines how the marks will be laid down based on your source color. So if it's a low value for the spacing sliders, it will lay down all over the place. But if it's a high value, it will look only at colors that are very different from your source file to edit and change. So I am going to leave this Spacing slider at 0 and show you how this works. So you can see that it's painting back the red chicken through this unusual artful type of brush. And we can try a different; I'll try Tight Medium. And now I will turn the fidelity down to 50%, and you can see that it will start to interject colors that are sort of all over the map. They're based close to the original source file, but you can see that there is a fair amount of difference here. And if we turn the fidelity down to the 0, we should get colors that are pretty strange. They are really not related much to our source document. So you can play with different levels of color fidelity. With an area value of 0, it's going to be laying down pixels based on exactly where I am painting. But we can increase this value, I will type in 20. And you can see now it's really laying down a lot more marks, and in fact the brush has slowed down. It's adding so many more marks. The brush will have to slow down because we're asking it to do a lot more. So this is a different kind of brush, the Dab brush. And of course if you wanted to bring back your original image, I could switch back to the History brush and begin painting back my original image through these artful marks. So it's a very interesting kind of brush. It's very much like the History brush. But it pushes the brushing effect through these artful types of brush shapes.

Tutorial Information

Course: Adobe Photoshop 6
Author: Andrew J. Hathaway
SKU: 33189
ISBN: 1930519206
Release Date: 2001-01-01
Duration: 13 hrs / 129 lessons
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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