Step By Step Guide To Creating Custom Brushes In Photoshop

Step By Step Guide To Creating Custom Brushes In Photoshop – Learn how to turn a photographed texture into a custom Photoshop brush, then use the brush to add a subtle vintage texture to your own photos!

Some of the best effects you can create in Photoshop come from creating your own custom brushes. Whether you want to create rain, snow, fog or even hair, custom brushes are both powerful and versatile.

Step By Step Guide To Creating Custom Brushes In Photoshop

In this tutorial, we will specifically focus on creating grunge and vintage effects using brushes made from real photographed textures.

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To get started, we need an image of the texture we want to convert into a custom brush. We need to make some adjustments to increase the contrast, remove the color and change the texture to pure white or pure black elements.

Click CTRL or CMD + L to open the level window. Move both the highlight and shadow sliders inward.

This will increase the overall contrast of the image and push the midtones to bright or dark.

Open the Image menu, choose Adjustments, then choose Desaturate. This will remove the color from the image, leaving us with only bright and dark grayscale details.

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We’re getting closer! For a brush preset, you typically want the textured areas to be black over a clean white background. Right now we have mostly black textures which will result in muddy, low detail brushes.

Fortunately, this is easy to fix. Since we want an inverted effect, simply click on the image layer and press CTRL or CMD + I to invert the image.

It looks more like a texture that we can use to create brushes. Make another level setting to further increase the contrast.

Then use the Brush Tool to remove some of the texture by painting the edges white. This will give the brush a more amorphous, organic feel when we start painting with it.

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Depending on the size of the image you are working with, it may be useful to resize it if it is large. We’re making a fairly high-resolution image as an example, so we’ve resized it to 1500 pixels wide to make it easier to process.

You can name the brush and you will see it in the list of available brushes in Photoshop.

However, if you try to paint with it now, you’ll notice that it doesn’t look like a natural finish. We need to change some of the brush settings to add some much needed randomness and variety to their appearance.

Open the Window menu and select the Brush Settings option. A window will open containing a wide range of options.

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We’ll focus on just a few of the settings, but we encourage you to experiment with them with this brush and the brushes you already have. Mastering them is key to creating a wide variety of brushes and brush effects.

Check Shape Dynamics and push the Size Jitter and Angle Jitter sliders to 100%. Notice its effect on the brush in the preview window below.

Next, check the Scatter option and move the Scatter slider up, notice its effect in the preview window.

Once the settings are good and you’ve tested the brush, click the options icon in the upper right corner of the Brush Settings window and select New Brush Preset.

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Give your brush a name that will help you remember what it does when you come back to use it later.

We recommend using Curves Adjustment Layers for this particular type of effect, as they are non-destructive, can be adjusted at any time, and create more subtle effects.

Create a Curves Adjustment Layer on top of the Layer Stack and drag the center line up into a smooth curve. Notice that the entire image becomes slightly brighter.

Select the Layer Mask of the Curves Adjustment Layer and invert it by pressing CTRL or CMD + I. This will hide the entire Curves Adjustment.

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Then using the Brush Tool set to our newly created texture brush, paint white on the Curves Adjustment Layer Mask. This will make the Curves Adjustment visible only where we painted, and it will appear as our texture brush!

You can hold ALT or OPTN while clicking on the Layer Mask to view the Layer Mask. This is a great way to see what goes on “behind the scenes” of texture effects.

And if you think the effect is too strong, or shows too much of the important elements of the picture, you can switch the brush color to black (but still use the texture brush!) to paint the areas so that they are less see the effect.

For more variation, you can create another Curves Adjustment Layer, but this time, drag the line down for a darker effect. Repeat the same steps as above to add more, darker texture elements to the image.

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And remember, you can double-click the Curves Adjustment Layer at any time to change its effect.

Have fun and experiment! You can use this brush to add grunge and vintage textures to any photo, and use this process to create your own textures and effects. The Brush Tool in Photoshop is one of the most versatile and can be used in many applications. It already has many useful brushes preloaded in the application and you can find more online. But sometimes you just need to be creative and have full control. Don’t you think so?

Don’t worry, another great thing about Photoshop is that you can create your own custom brushes. Let me show you how.

First of all, what exactly is a brush? It is a tool used to draw strokes. You can find it in the toolbox or you can activate it with the hotkey: B.

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This tool is very flexible as you can adjust the shape, size, opacity and many other details from the preset panel. This multiplies the options beyond the first set of options you see in the first menu.

However, there are times when you need something that you can’t find installed. For example, you can replace your signature or your logo with a brush, it doesn’t get more personal than that right? In just a few steps you can achieve it.

Open the image containing your signature or logo, for example, this could be from scanned paper or a JPG version of a logo designed in another program. Now that it’s open, activate the Marquee tool to select the image. Just click and drag the selection around it, making sure you don’t take anything else out of the image.

Then go to Menu > Edit > Define Brush Preset and a new window will open where you can name your brush. Enter any name you like, preferably something that will help you identify it later, and click OK.

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In the Brush Name window you will see a thumbnail with a preview of your brush, you will notice that the color (if any) is lost, this is because the brushes are in grayscale, so it does not register the colors in the original. Of course, you can use any color when using this.

You now have a new signature brush. Anytime you want to use it, just select the brush tool and then open the drop-down menu in the options bar. You can also select it from the Brush Preset panel which you can access from the window menu if it’s not already open.

You might be wondering why you need to convert it to a brush instead of just setting it as an image. This is because it gives you access to all brush tool settings and controls. Just open the brush panel and you’ll be able to change from color to size to spacing – everything you need to create patterns, watermarks and more!

How easily you can turn any photo into a custom brush. But what about making one from scratch?

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First, open a white canvas and draw the shape you want to make into a brush. To do this you can use any Shape tool or even other brushes. For example, I will make a simple glitter. For that I just need four lines with the Line tool and a round brush with a very soft edge in the middle to give it a glow effect.

Note that color is not registered so it doesn’t matter what colors you use to draw your shape. Just know that anything white won’t be part of the brush because that will translate as transparent. Now to turn it into a brush, just follow the steps you did before. Menu > Edit > Define Brush Presets. Click on the name.

Now your custom brush is done, grab it from the menu like any other brush. It’s very easy to do but using it can be as elaborate as you need because it has so many possibilities. Let me give you some tips to make the most of it.

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