From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
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Painting with a predefined custom brush - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Painting with a predefined custom brush
In this exercise I'm going to introduce you to a few of what I considere to be the most intriguing brushes that are included along with that M Brushes library, that we loaded in the previous exercise. I think you'll be fairly amazed by a few of these. It may make you scratch your head and wonder, what in the world is going on? Because a lot of these brushes are unlike anything most of us use on a routine basis inside Photoshop. Some of them behave in fairly spectacular ways. So I'm just going to show you what's up inside of this exercise. Then we'll begin to sort of dissect what's going on with a few of these brushes in the next exercise, so you can figure out how to design your own amazing mesmerizing brushes. So I'm still working here inside Canvas texture.psd. By the way, you know what; I'm going to move these panels apart from each other a little bit, so that I have easier access to things. But first, I'm going to show you, I'm working inside the Brush Presets panel. If you want…
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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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