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How to make Photoshop brushes

Making Photoshop brushes is so easy. Everybody can do that :)

I'll show you how to make CS3 photoshop brushes - but it can be done the same way with other versions.

This is a beginner tutorial for photoshop.

Table of Contents

  1. Start with your first Photoshop brush
  2. Simple Example
  3. While making your Photoshop brush
  4. Make the Photoshop brush
  5. Free Retro Brushes for Photoshop CS3
  6. Learning Photoshop
  7. Photoshop DVDs on eBay
  8. Download free Photoshop brushes
  9. Ideas for items you could scan
  10. Photoshop books on Amazon
  11. Tutorials for Photoshop beginners
  12. Brushes for private and commercial use
  13. Photoshop Brush Videos
  14. Free Photoshop Brushes
  15. Poser Freebies Blog
  16. Which graphic software do you use?
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  18. My newest Lenses
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Start with your first Photoshop brush

you don't need to know photoshop tricks for this all :)

Open a new document with a size of your choice.
Maybe 200 x 200 for a small brush.
The document needs to have a white background.

Paint something on the background :)

Simple Example

brush tutorial

While making your Photoshop brush

- learn how to photoshop -

Have in mind - everything you paint in black it's later opaque in your brush, what's white will be transparent. Different shades of gray will give a different tranceparency when you use the brush.

Make the Photoshop brush

brush tutorial



Give your brush a name:

brush tutorial



You just did your first brush :)

brush tutorial



Have fun :)

brush tutorial

Free Retro Brushes for Photoshop CS3

Learning Photoshop

interesting links

Photoshop Video Tutorials
Photoshop Video Tutorials.
Create Digital Backgrounds In Photoshop
Create Digital Backgrounds In 5 Minutes With Photoshop. Video Download!
Edit Your Digital Photos Using Photoshop
Learn How To Use Adobe Photoshop To Quickly And Easily Edit Your Digital Photos Like The Professionals.
Photoshop Photos To Art EBook
Over 40 Tutorials For Creating Paintings From Photographs. Styles Include Impressionist, Oil, Watercolor, Sketch, And Many More. Professional & Amateur Photographers, Artists, Hobbyists Etc. No Special Skills.
Yvonne Grubb's Digital Imaging Tutorial.
Get The Best From Your Digital Photos With These 'Hands-On' Practical & Easy Understandable Adobe Photoshop Videos - Get Started Right Now!

Photoshop DVDs on eBay

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Download free Photoshop brushes

If you don't want to paint own brushes, you can make also very interesting Photoshop brushes with your scanner.

Have a look around in your house for an interesting little object you could use.

You can use nearly everything :) Just be careful you don't make scratches on the glass of your scanner when you close it.

If you want to scan thicker pieces, you can not close your scanner...

That's what I do in that case:

Use a box (maybe from shoes or so) and cover it on the inside with white paper.
Put that box over your object and scan.

Ideas for items you could scan

for using it as a Photoshop brush

These are just a few examples :) Experiment with other things too.
You will get some great results with avarage things.
  1. Sliced fruits or vegetables (use transparent foil when you scan that ;)...)
  2. Fabric
  3. Knittet things
  4. Sand (of course also with transparent foil)
  5. Small stones
  6. Leaves
  7. Grass
  8. Jewellery
  9. Crunched paper

Photoshop books on Amazon

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Tutorials for Photoshop beginners

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Brushes for private and commercial use

These are brushes you can buy for a low price. You can use them for commercial products too.
Photoshop Brushes
Circular Frame Brushes
Holiday Brushes & Png's
Cute Christmas / Winter brushes
Sewing Brushes
Made from real sewing stiches - great for scrapbooking.
Grunge Brushes
Need to add a bit of grunge, dirt structure to your images? Then you will like this brush set.
Florella
Beautiful ornamental brushes
Heart Brushes & PNG Collection
Cute heart brushes and pngs
3D Brushes
Brushes made from modeled 3D objects.
Fun with Ornaments
Ornament Brushes
Whimsical Border Brushes 1
Whimsical Border Brushes
Whimsical Border Brushes 2
Whimsical Border Brushes
Brush Mix
300 brushes
Rotation Fun
Ornament Brushes
More brushes at Content Paradise
A lot more brush sets

Photoshop Brush Videos

Justin Gerard's Photoshop Brush Demonstration
by portlandstudios | video info

43 ratings | 15,192 views
curated content from YouTube

Free Photoshop Brushes

It's very important that you carefully read the licence / terms of use for brushes you download. A lot of brushes are free for private use but NOT for commercial use.

If a brush set has not license or readme included and you don't know if it's free for commercial use - ask before you use it.
brusheezy
Free brushes and other goodies
photoshopbrushes.com
Free brushes and other goodies
Brushking
Free brushes
PS Brushes
Free brushes
Brushes and more
Free brushes and other goodies

Poser Freebies Blog

My freebies for Poser and also 2D freebies like textures, trims and more.
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