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History / Art History Brush
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As technical as Photoshop can be at times, it's good to know there's a tool or two that allows you to have nothing but fun. And one of those tools is located right here under the history brush tool and it's called the art history brush tool. Even the icon is kind of fun. And what this tool will allow me to do is fill this layer with a solid color and paint backwards to history, but have a very artsy feel to it. So I'm going to grab my layers and show you something here I'm going to grab my layers and going fill. Let me go ahead and get rid of this layer here. I don't need that. I'm going to fill this actual original layer here, after I unlock it, with this color. So I'm going to just fill that in and you might think to yourself, it's ruined, it's ruined! No, it's not. So I'm going to grab my history and show you that it's going to paint to this state right here and I'm going to grab this brush and I'm simply going to move it around and start painting it. Now, you'll notice that nothing's happening. But that's because like the magic wand tool and some of the other tools, we have the ability to limit and to increase how much of the image we're painting. And the culprit is this guy right here. This is our tolerance. Let me go ahead and talk about that very quickly. Now, the tolerance will pretty much determine when the paint will be applied. A high setting will limit the paint to parts of the image that greatly vary from the source image. So I'm going to drop this all the way down to zero and watch what happens when I paint now. It's going to let me paint pretty much anywhere I want to. So once again, if I put the tolerance very high, it's going to limit exactly where I'm going to paint and it has to be pretty different from the source material as far as the color. So I'm going to go ahead and just move this around and I'm painting the image here. As you see, I'm getting all kinds of cool swirls with the brush. And as I paint, the artwork starts to look more and more like you painted it from scratch. You know, so I'm going to go ahead and hide my layers here. I'm going to undo all that and I'm going to show you some of these options here. First of all, we can choose our brush size, which is kind of obvious. And I'm going to choose a gigantic brush this time. I'm going to leave the mode at normal. And I can also determine the opacity. So I'm going to opacity down a little bit. I'm going to change the style from tight short, which gave us our little, tight, short strokes to something like loose and long. And I'm also going to leave the area, which is pretty much the area that we're going to be able to paint in, right at 50 pixels. I'm going to change that in a moment and show you how that works. I'm going to move my mouse. And look at these crazy strokes I'm getting here. And really, I'm getting a very abstract feel to the artwork because I'm using very loose, long strokes with an opacity of 41 percent. So it's still painting backwards, but it's really giving me this really cool feel here. Also, I have a gigantic brush and that's also helping to change this image. I'm going to revert this once. Well, actually I'm not going to revert or go backwards. I'll reduce the size of the brush and I'm going to increase my opacity by 200 percent. I'm going to go to something like a loose curl and this time I'm going to drop the area down to one and show you what happens here. So the area is pretty much going to determine where I'm painting and it's going to pretty much stay in the area of my brush. Now, check this out. If I click and let my brush go by itself, and move it just a little, tiny bit, the brush strokes will continue to move by themselves. Now what I'm going to do is increase the area to a hundred and I'll click again. And you'll notice that the strokes are much larger and they're really painting in a larger area of the canvas. And once again, because we have a loose curl here, it's not tight at all, it's giving me a very loose, almost banana-like curl and it's painting backwards in time. So once again, we'll undo that. I'll step backwards a little bit as well and I'm going to go to something else. I'm going to go to a dab. I'm going to leave the settings as they are and I'm going to paint. And now I get these kind of like little sprays and I can either fill this color all the way or I can leave it like that and have like a little, natural frame around the image. The art history brush is a nice, relaxing way to take artwork or image and photos and just give them a very painterly feel. And as I said, uh, before, all you have to do is play around with these, uh, setting here to determine the kind of artwork you're going to wind up with once you're finished with the tool.
Tutorial Information
| 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 |
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