From the course: Digital Matte Painting: Changing a Scene From Summer to Winter

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Creating a custom brush

Creating a custom brush

Now the mountains are looking snowcapped, but we still have these green trees in the background. We are going to get rid of them with some painting. So let's select the Mountain layer and create a new layer above it. And will name this new layer, creatively enough, Painting. It can be useful to confine your painting to a separate layer so that you can go back later and color correct the base layer. I'm build custom brush to paint the background trees. I create a lot of custom brushes while I'm working, and I would adjust that it's helpful to give your brush a distinctive name, so that you'll remember what it does when you come back to it later. As a starting point for this custom brush, you can use either the ChalkBrush from the set of custom brushes included with the course materials or use the brush titled Chalk from the default brush set that ships with every copy of Photoshop. Select either of those brushes and then start a new file for some experimentation. 500 pixels x 500…

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