From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
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Cleaning and loading a brush - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
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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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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