Photoshop CS: How to Create and Use Brush (Part 1)

The sections below explain photoshop cs in a clear and practical way. Review the key details, examples, and considerations before applying the information.

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How Photoshop CS Works

- On the " Options " bar, the properties of the brush appears.

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- click the small down arrow to select the appropriate brush strokes.

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+ Master diameter : choose a large or small pen stroke + Hardness : choose a pen stroke, hard or soft. + click the circle button icon with triangle, there appears a window containing a combination of names of brush strokes (such as natural brush, square brush.) You can choose for yourself but the pen strokes are suitable. II.Use the Brushes palette ( Palette Brushes ) - To blur the brushes palette, you can do two ways: + Window -> Brushes + Click Toggle the brushes palette Located on the right side of the Options Bar

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- Feature options on the Brushes Palette .

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The Brushes palette With brush stroke options is shown as follows:

• A : lock an attribute
• B : Open properties
• C : Choose brush strokes
• D : Composite area of attributes
• E : The pop-up menu selects different burshs.
• F : Shape of pen strokes (it only shows when you select " Brush tip Shape ")
• G : select properties for each brush
• H : Preview the brushes

III.Application exercises 1. Use the temp brush included in photoshop. Lesson 1. Draw roses . - Open a new document with 500 x 500 px size. white background (#ffffff) - Select the Brush Tool - Open the Brushes palette -> click the pop-up menu -> select Special effect brushes - click the rose brush, set the attributes according to the following picture

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- Create a new layer ( Layer -> new -> layer ) - Press "D" to return to default Foreground And Background Colors (black and white)

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- Draw the rose brush on the new layer (remember only one click) - name this layer "hoahong"

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- Start coloring the roses (here I like blue roses, because I have never seen real flowers in real life. You can choose the color you like when painting your rose) - right-click " Hoahong layer " -> choose Blending options : - Set Inner Shadow Properties, and Outer Glow As shown below

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Remember to set the Blend mode : Normal. and Color of the same Inner shadow And Outer Glow To create the brightness and smoothness of the rose wings (for this example I set color: # 241AFC), the result is:

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Lesson 2: Drawing Snow Flowers : - Open a new 400 x 400 px document, black background (# 000000) - Select Brush tool - Open the Brushes palette -> pop-up menu -> select Assorted brushes - Choose snowflake brush - Select the properties as follows

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- Press "D" key -> press "X" key to switch to white and black foreground and background colors - Create a new layer, name it "hoatuyet" - Draw a cough brush on the layer (Click once)

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- right-click "hootuyet layer" -> select Blending options - Set the following Inner shadow Attribute - the purpose of lightening the snowflake

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- Filter -> blur -> radial blur -> set properties

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You can repeat Radial blur Step by pressing " Ctrl + F " key combination .

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- Click Effects Under the layer layer -> open the layer style

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- Set the outer glow attribute for the layer layer as shown below

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- And results:

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Lesson 3: Draw the leaf . - The above steps repeat lesson 1, 2 - Select the Inner Shadow Attribute, and the Outer Glow brush for The leaves as follows

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- Result:

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