From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
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Dissecting a custom brush - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Dissecting a custom brush
I've gone ahead and restored the saved version of Canvas texture.psd. In this exercise we're going to dissect a couple of those brushes that are included with the M Brushes collection. We'll see how they rely on a handful of advanced settings in the Brushes panel. Then in the next exercise, we'll exploit those advanced settings to create a custom brush of our own. So I'm going to switchover to this brush right here inside of the Brush Presets list. It's that crosshatch brush that we saw in the previous exercise. I want you to notice that the Brush Presets panel goes ahead and lists two columns of previews. So on the right-hand side, we see a brushstroke. That's the brush itself, subject to the many settings that you assign inside the Brush panel. Over here on the left-hand side we have what's known as the brush preset, which is the core brush that's apparently being scribbled all over the place in little dollops, as I was telling you way back in the Fundamentals portion of this…
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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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