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Dissecting a custom brush

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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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