Photoshop CS: How to create and use Brush (Part 1)

Working with brushes is an important part of using Painting and Editing tools. In this lesson, I will show you how to create and use simple brushes in Photoshop.

I. Use brushes in a library of Photoshop brushes

- Select the Brush tool

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- On the " Options " bar, the properties of the brush will appear.

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- Click on 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 on the circle button icon with triangle, there will appear 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:

1. A : lock an attribute
2. B : Open properties
3. C : Choose brush strokes
4. D : Composite area of ​​attributes
5. E : The pop-up menu selects different burshs.
6. F : Shape of pen strokes (it only shows when you select " Brush tip Shape ")
7. G : select properties for each brush
8. 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 on 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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Ngọc Lan (Translating lesson from Photoshop Help , and performing manipulation of illustrated applications)
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