In this lesson,you`ll learn all about the Brush tool and how to use it in Photoshop.
I`ll speak about its many options and features and I`ll show you how to install brushes on your computer.
Presenting the tool
The brush tool is one of the most useful tools in Photoshop , with an excellent range of features available. It has a very comprehensive options bar and a lot of options,this being the reason why you may feel a little bit lost when you use it.But don`t worry.One after another.
The brush tool may be selected by pressing the “B” key or by clicking the brush tool icon from the tools sidebar.
Once the tool is selected,its options bar appear on the top of the screen.
The options bar offers 4 major options:Brush,Mode,Opacity and Flow.
In the top right of the menu,there`s a play button.Here you`ll find more options about how to display the brushes and,the important thing,here are the brushes.
And if it wasn`t enough,the brush tool has some more options,other than those explained till now and more let`s say “professional” than them.Controlling and managing those options gives you the possibility to become a great digital artist.
All of these settings are reasonably self explanatory with a little experimentation but I`ll present you some of the most important options of this menu:
Here`s an example of combining those options and applying them:
The Brush tool is certainly a fantastic instrument, and if all those options are put in use,can be a greater asset to to create some nice stuffs.Next I`ll show you how to install brushes in Adobe Photoshop.
Install brushes in Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop has a folder named Brushes where you may store the new brushes.To find the folder,go to the folder where you installed the Photoshop application and open the Presets folder.Here is the Brushes folder.
The path to the brush folder is Folder_where_you_installed_Photoshop/Presets/Brushes.
So,if you have a brush set and want to use it in Photoshop,copy the brush set in this folder and open the Photoshop application.Then find the respective brush in the options bar of Brush tool.
Then press the “Play button” situated in the top-right of the menu:
It will be revealed all your brushes installed in Photoshop.
Select the desired brush and use it in Photoshop.
The brush tool is one of the most important and essential tool that I use in my works.Almost all my tutorials have elements created by brushes.For example,the Unreal underwater scene and The fantasy illustration tutorials are in a big part created only with brushes.
The unreal underwater scene:
The fantasy illustration tutorial:
If you let your imagination work there`s no doubt that you`ll succeed in creating some great stuff,using this tool and combining it with other tools.
That`s all for now!I hope you learned something today.See you next time for another lesson!
Bye bye!
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Hi,
Thanks for the great tutorial. It’s really helpful. I’m a real beginner for photoshop.
I wanted to asked a question about the tutorial in ‘clone stamp’, but I found no reply part there. So I’m using this post. Hope it’s ok to ask my problem here.
My problem with ‘clone stamp’ function is, I tried many times “alt+click” and click and drag (with no alt) into the right empty space to copy the source image. But, in some reason which I don’t know, my programme doesn’t work, keep saying “Could not use the clone stamp because the area to clone has not been defined (Alt-click to define a source point)”.
Do you have any idea where was wrong? I really appreciate it if you can help me out.
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Nice tutorial.
Thanks for it.
I am a newbie for photoshop and it helped me a lot to build my techniques in photoshop.
Good tutorial .
Very cool tutorial.THanks.
yes,very useful suggestions,it can be use in our job!
I always love to learn things about adobe photoshop and this tutorial is one of the best i have ever read. I loved the way you explain the use of brushes
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I have put some text in a microscopic image using ImageJ and set it permanently using their command Edit/Draw. There is no command in Image J to change or delete this text. I want to change this text. Somebody told me to bring it ti Photoshop and use brush tool to delete the text. How can I do that ?
Thanks for your help.
Tapan
Just open the image in photoshop and use the CLONE STAMP tool over the text you want to remove..then select the TEXT tool and type in the new text and save as a .jpg
check this out it explains better..
http://www.ehow.com/how_5294106_remove-text-image-photoshop.html