How to make Photoshop brushes
Making Photoshop brushes is so easy.
Everybody can do that :)
I'll show you with Photoshop CS3 - but it can be done the same way with other versions.
This is a very basic tutorial for Photoshop beginners.
Everybody can do that :)
I'll show you with Photoshop CS3 - but it can be done the same way with other versions.
This is a very basic tutorial for Photoshop beginners.
Table of Contents
- Start
- Simple Example
- Have in mind....
- Make brush
- Learning Photoshop
- Free Rice
- Interesting brushes
- Ideas for items you could scan
- Free Retro Brushes for Photoshop CS3
- Tutorials for Photoshop beginners
- Brushes for private and commercial use
- Brush Videos
- Free Brushes
- Interested in making lenses too?
- My guestbook :)
Start
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 :)
Maybe 200 x 200 for a small brush.
The document needs to have a white background.
Paint something on the background :)
Simple Example
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 brush
Give your brush a name:
You just did your first brush :)
Have fun :)
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!
Free Rice
FreeRice is a non-profit website run by the United Nations World Food Program
Interesting brushes
If you don't want to paint own brushes, you can make also very interesting 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.
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
These are just a few examples :) Experiment with other things too.
You will get some great results with avarage things.
You will get some great results with avarage things.
- Sliced fruits or vegetables (use transparent foil when you scan that ;)...)
- Fabric
- Knittet things
- Sand (of course also with transparent foil)
- Small stones
- Leaves
- Grass
- Jewellery
- Crunched paper
Here's my favorite link:
Tutorials for Photoshop beginners
These links are meant for Photoshop beginners.
- Gingham
- How to make a very simple seamless tiling GIngham texture.
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
Free 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.
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
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You want to make your own first lens? It's so much fun :)
Just sign up and start making your lens :)
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- akw akw Sep 15, 2009 @ 11:52 pm
- Excellent. There are tonnes of free brushes out there. I love the ones from Obsidian Dawn and coolestbrushes.com
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- ChapelHillFiddler ChapelHillFiddler Sep 2, 2009 @ 6:58 am
- I own Photoshop, use it all the time but use only about 1 percent of its features. I keep promising myself i'll take the time to read the manual. sigh. Thanks for this lens! And thanks for visiting my puppet lens of the day!
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- tdove tdove Jul 23, 2009 @ 5:20 pm
- I've used Photoshop for years and never made my own brush. Thanks for the tips. I will give it a try. Thanks for checking out my baby shower lens.
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- aquariann aquariann Apr 29, 2009 @ 7:21 pm
- Fun, 5-star lens! I've been meaning to experiment with making my own Photoshop brushes, so thanks for making the instructions so easy! Very neat to see the screen shots in German, too. :D
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