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Get the Most Out of Your Photoshop Brushes

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Experimenting is the key!

Photoshop brushes can be intimidating to use for the first time. First, you don't know where to go to download them. I would suggest BittBox, Brusheezy and Obsidian Dawn for starters. But then once you get to those sites, there is an overwhelming amount of brushes to look through!

Below are some tutorials I've written on my blog, Creative Curio, that explore Photoshop brushes and how to get the most out of them. Enjoy!

How to Customize Photoshop Brushes

It's fun to start looking through all the brushes other people have made, but what about exploring the ones that come installed with Photoshop? There are so many things you can do with those that won't require wading through pages of brushes from other people!

Read How to Customize Photoshop Brushes

Experimenting with Photoshop Brushes

The features covered in this article--noise, wet edges, airbrush and smoothing--are found in the Brush Palette. They do not have any options, they are merely in an on or off state.

I also talk about how to combine effects and show you a few of the brush settings that I have used.

Read Experimenting with Photoshop Brushes

So That's What I've Been Missing! Photoshop Brushes!

I think after three and a half years in Photoshop I've finally learned what I've been missing: Brushes!

Read So That's What I've Been Missing! Photoshop Brushes!

Review of Wacom Intuos and Graphire Pen Tablets

In many of my articles on brushes I talk about using a Wacom pen tablet. This is a must-have tool for any Photoshop user. I've had many people ask my opinion on using a tablet, which one to buy, what has been my experience, etc. and in this article I review both the Intuos3 and the Graphire3 tablets.

Read Review of Wacom Intuos and Graphire Pen Tablets

Where to Go for Photoshop Brushes

My favorite resources for Photoshop brushes

Most Popular Brushes on deviantArt
There is a vast selection of brushes on deviantArt. Please respect the copyright restrictions for them!
Bittbox Freebies
Bittbox produces many high quality brushes, among many other useful freebies like textures and vectors.
Obsidian Dawn Brushes
She has many beautiful brushes, including categories like fantasy, tribal, nature, handwriting and textures.
Brusheezy
People are always contributing new content to Brusheezy.
Spoon Graphics Freebies
Another blog with high quality free brushes
Design Fruit Photoshop Brushes
More freebie goodness with Design Fruit!
PSBrushes.net
You may have to wade through some not-so-high-quality brushes to find the good stuff here.

LaurenMarie's Photoshop Brushes Bookmarks on Del.icio.us

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Hi, I'm Lauren and I run a blog, CreativeCurio.com, all about Graphic Design. I've been in the Graphic Design industry since 2003, but there are tons more... more »

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