From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
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Canvas texture and brush libraries - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Canvas texture and brush libraries
Throughout this chapter we're going to take a look at the two new big painting innovations inside Photoshop CS5, and that's Bristle Brushes and the Mixer Brush. But before we go there, I wanted to show you some of the advanced painting settings that have been around for a long time now. So there were two watershed versions of Photoshop where painting is concerned; one is CS5, the most recent edition and one was Photoshop 7. A you old schoolers may recall that Photoshop 7 was that version of the program that introduced the Healing Brush, it also introduced all kinds of new painting technology into Photoshop. And Photoshop 7 came right before Photoshop CS. It was right before Adobe changed it's numbering conventions, incidentally. So I want to show you some of that technology because I think just about all of you will find it to be terribly entertaining if not downright useful. So a couple of things upfront. First of all, I'm working inside of this image called Canvas texture.psd. And I…
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Photoshop's advanced painting tools2m 3s
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Canvas texture and brush libraries6m 40s
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Painting with a predefined custom brush9m 21s
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Dissecting a custom brush11m 9s
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Designing and using a custom brush4m 54s
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Saving and loading brush presets5m 27s
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The ten styles of bristle brushes9m 47s
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Size, Spacing, and Angle7m 2s
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Using the Bristle Brush preview7m 53s
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Bristles, Length, Thickness, and Stiffness6m 53s
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Stylus tilt and mouse behavior5m 25s
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Stroking a path outline with a brush4m
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Troubleshooting a stylus5m 49s
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Introducing the Mixer Brush7m 22s
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The Load, Mix, and Wet values5m 1s
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Cleaning and loading a brush6m 26s
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Shading a piece of graphic art6m 34s
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Shading with color7m 53s
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Mixing a photographic portrait6m 11s
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Tracing the fine details in an image5m 52s
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Crosshatching and brush size5m 53s
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Covering up and augmenting details7m 36s
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Painting in hair and fabric5m 54s
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Painting and scaling very fine hairs8m 7s
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Adding texture with the Emboss filter8m 31s
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Exploiting a "happy accident"2m 46s
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