creating-brushes-tutorial

This tutorial will walk you through how to create brushes in Photoshop. It details how to create the brushes themselves and save them into a set.1. Creating your own custom Photoshop brush es iseasier than you might think. First, let’s create a simplesignature brush. Open a new file within Photoshop (File> New..), and make it approx 500 X 500 pixe ls. Theresolution doesn’t matter. Make it 72 pixels/inc h, orwhatever it starts on. Make sure that the mode is RGB.For “Background Contents,” choose white.When you're making a signature brush, make sure you make it large e nough toaccommodate your needs. A lot of us are working on pretty large scales, now-a-d ays, andyou want it large enough to be able to work on anything. 2500X2500 pixels is the largestbrush that you can possibly make. So make it that large if you'd like. Reme mber, you canalways scale the size of the brush DOWN much better than you can scale it UP. When you make a brush, ALWAYS make sure it has a white background. Everythin g that iswhite will remain an “empty” area when it comes to the brush – a gap or a hole, if you will.You’ll see what I mean as we go along. Now, using black or a dark color , make yoursignature.2. Mine is fairly sloppy and simple, but you get the idea.You can make it as ornate as you wish. In fact, that ’s one ofthe wonderful things about using a signature brush – youdon’t have to reproduce it each time! Now, under t he topmenu, under “Edit” click on ...