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Photoshop comes stocked with tons of brushes but you can also make your own brush. First of all let me just show you how you can look at all the brushes that Photoshop has. Click on this guy right here and you can see when you scroll down that you have all kinds of shapes in there. You have grass, you have leaves, you have you know these little swarmy kinds of things. You have all kinds of cool brushes in Photoshop. So let me go ahead and just grab this one here, this is the grass and I'm going to change the color to green and I am simply gonna paint and show you that you have some custom brush in here. Now what I'm gonna do as well is I'm going to select all, press command or control A and hit delete and show you now how to make your own brush. So I'm gonna go to the top here and we are going to start here. I'm going to deselect this and I'm going to now choose a black color to show you how to make something like footsteps. So I'm gonna grab my lasso tool and I'm gonna draw out uh a part of the foot here, the shoe and I'm gonna hold the shift key so I can add to the selection, add the heel. And I'm gonna do the same thing, I'm gonna hold down the shift key and I'm gonna go over here and I'm gonna draw out another foot and OK so this is the uh footstep uh that I'm gonna do here. So I'm gonna go to edit and I'm gonna go to fill and I'm gonna say ok. Now what I can do is deselect those, grab my marquee tool, and I'm gonna draw an outline around both of these feet here. Now what I can do is once again go to the edit menu and choose define brush preset. The brush name dialog box appears and I can give it whatever name I like such as footsteps, click OK and now I'm gonna delete that and I'm gonna deselect I'm gonna go to my brush and I'm gonna click on this guy here again and all the way in the bottom you see my feet. How cool is that? Now you'll also notice that the master diameter is 357 pixels. Now where did that number come from? Well when you create your own preset it keeps track of the actual size of the image that you created and this was the image size. So what I can do is I can put my mouse out here and you can see this is exactly the size of the brush that I created. The cool thing is I can use the slider to reduce that like I can with any brush and now I can go out of my document and I can start to paint. So I'm going to just move my mouse and I can paint with this custom brush. And I can use it as a regular stroke or I can move my mouse and just add my feet there. So let me go ahead and undo that. As matter of fact I'll go ahead and select all and delete that and once again I can paint with my own custom brush. Now of course the brush goes to the preset manager and you can go to your brushes and you can see your brush down here. You can see the number of pixels, you can double click on it, rename it if you so desire and you can also delete it and you can also save it as part of your set and give it to someone else. So that's kind of cool. So once again it's very easy to create your own brush in Photoshop, the artwork doesn't really matter as far as the size because you can always scale it back by going to the controls and using the master diameter slider to change the size of the brush.
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop CS3 |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 33782 |
| ISBN: | 1-933736-98-4 |
| Release Date: | 2007-08-02 |
| Duration: | 9 hrs / 161 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |