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Cleaning and loading a brush

Cleaning and loading a brush - Photoshop Tutorial

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Cleaning and loading a brush

In this exercise, I am going to explain how to work with the Clean and Load Brush options and you'll also see how to load and paint with multiple colors at a time. I've restored the saved version of Color stripes.psd. Notice this menu right here contains a variety of presets which modify the Wet, Load, and Mix values. So I'd like you to go ahead and choose Wet, which will change the Wet value to 50%, Load to 50%, and Mix to 50%. I don't really care if Load is set to 50%. In fact, I want it to be 100%. So I'll Shift+scrub right over the word Load in order to change that value to 100 as we're seeing there. Now notice these icons right there, we've got one that's called Clean brush after each stroke. So in another words, you paint with red at the beginning and then you end up picking up all this other color. And you clean the brush and make it red again before you apply the next brushstroke and by default, that's the way it's set up. You also have this other one that's asking you if you…

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