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Painting type with custom brushes

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Painting type with custom brushes

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- [Instructor] In this movie I'd like to show you how we can use our custom brushes, combined with stroke path to create this kind of effect. This is my finished version. Let me now switch to my source file. This is a stock image, and I started by masking the leaf shapes, and then went on to make custom brushes from the different leaves. I have them already created, but let me show you how I did that, so having made the layer mask, which applies to all of them, I will activate that layer mask by cmd + clicking on it, and then come and get my polygonal lasso tool and I'm working with this behavior to intersect with selection. So, now I can just make a polygonal lasso selection around the leaf that I want, and that is the only one that remains selected. I can then come to the Edit menu and choose Define Brush Preset. So, having created my brushes, I then went onto my brush settings. My brushes are all in a group, which is called Leaf, and they all have the following attributes: I have…

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