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Stroking a path outline with a brush - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Stroking a path outline with a brush
In this exercise, I am going to demonstrate how to paint a brushstroke, whether uses a Bristle brush or any other kind of brush inside of Photoshop, along a path outline that you've drawn with the Pen tool or one of the Shape tools and saved off inside the Paths panel. Here I am working away, still inside Brush settings diagram.psd, found inside the 31_bristle_brushes folder. I have advanced all the way to the second layer comp here inside the Layer Comps panel. It's called RBM which is short for Round Blunt Medium (same), so same settings that we've been using, but path. That is, we are tracing a path outline as opposed to using a stylus or a mouse. All right, so if you want to catch up with me, go ahead and click in front of that layer comp. I'm going to close the Layer Comps panel and then I am going to scroll up my Layers panel list just a little bit, we are still close to the bottom of list here, and I am going to click on RBM along path. That is the brushstroke that we are…
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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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