One of my favorite things about digital painting is you can make brushes that work like rubber stamps on steroids.įor painting Cody's feathers, I figured rather than trying to make brush strokes that look like feathers, why not paint a feather, and use it as a brush. If I'm painting hair, I want to choose a brush that makes marks that look like hair. I'm a big fan of letting the brush do the work.
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The first thing I do when painting anything, whether traditionally or digitally, is choose an appropriate brush. In the following tutorial, I'll explain how I used Photoshop's brushes to paint the feathers on Cody from "Surf's Up - post #12". Here's one of the stock Photoshop brushes with a whole bunch of brush control variations turned on.
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Try experimenting a little, and you'll start to see the possibilities. There are controls for Shape, scattering, color, texture etc. Using the PS brush controls you can create brushes that have all kinds of variations and textures. With the new brushes, I can paint an entire field of grass with just a few brush strokes. In a practical application using the old brushes, if I wanted to paint grass, I'd have to paint each blade individually. You'll find the brush controls on the "Brush" palette. All that changed with the brush controls Adobe introduced in Photoshop 7 (which actually owes a big debt of gratitude to the Painter brush controls, from which PS "borrowed" liberally. I just couldn't do the kind of things with the PS brushes that I could with traditional brushes. If you have a later version, you'll have a few more bells and whistles, but the basics are the same.)įor the longest time, I had trouble painting from scratch in Photoshop. Anyone working with an earlier version won't be able to play along. Oh, and for this tutorial, I'm using Photoshop 7.
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(For those of you who are already Photoshop experts, this will probably be a bit of a repeat. As promised, here's a tutorial (hopefully the first of many) on some of the ways I use Photoshop's brushes.