Hi, this is Anne with Graphic Design How To, and today I'm going to show
you how to make your own brushes in Adobe Photoshop. All right, let's get started. All
right, so I'm here in Photoshop, and first we're going to start a new document.
So I'll hit Create New right over here. I'm going to make this 2500 by 2500, and
300 pixels per inch. Now, you can make this 72 PPI if you're wanting to create graphics for the web,
and honestly, I think you can go up to five, oops, let me fix that. I think you can make this
a 5000 by 5000 square if you have a newer version of Photoshop, but I wanted this to be able to help
everyone, even those with older versions like CS6. So 2500 by 2500, with a resolution of 300 pixels
per inch should work for you. All right, let's Create. All right, I'm going to hit CMD zero,
or CTRL zero to get the entire box on my screen. And when we create our brush, you want to kind
of fill up this entire area, I'll show you what I mean here in a second. You also want to use
shades of black, so either solid black, or gray. So let's hit D on our keyboard, and that will
give us a black foreground color, and a white background color. Also, another thing to know
about brushes... your background of your square needs to either be white or no background. Right
now we have a white background. But if I started a new layer and threw this one away like this,
you can see it has no background now, so it has to be one way or the other. So I'm going to put this
on a transparent background. But I'm also going to add a white background behind it so that we
can see what we're doing a little better. I've got a white background right now right over here. So
I'm going to hit CMD Delete or CTRL Delete on a PC to fill that with white. You can also go up here
to Edit and >Fill right here. And then choose to fill it with a background color. We'll say OK. Ok,
so I'm going to draw a shape on my canvas. I'm going to come over here to my shapes. And I'll
just choose the Rectangle tool for now. So I'm going to make a big square right in the middle
of my canvas. You don't have to go all the way out to the edge, but just fill up most of the space.
And now I'll put the rectangle or shape right over here in your layers.
And the next step to make the brush, all you need to do is come up here to Edit,
and then go to Define Brush Preset. And you can name it. I'm going to call this one Rectangle.
And we'll say, OK. Now I'm going to throw away this rectangle shape. You can see that my brush
has changed to that huge rectangle. So I'm going to make it a little bit smaller. You can do that
right up here. We'll reduce it down to something like this. And you can see as we click, if we
click once we get that square shape. You can see that we have a brush that is made of those square
shapes. It's not a very smooth brush, so I'm going to come up here and increase the smoothing to 100.
And now when I draw, we get a smoother line. So that's how to make a brush in Photoshop. You make
a 2500 by 2500 square with a white background, and then draw on it with black or grays. And then go
to Edit>Define Brush Preset. I want to go over a few different ways that you can make shapes.
You can use your shape tools, which is what we just did. Any of these tools will work. You can
also use other brushes to make your new brush. So if we hit B on our keyboard, that'll get us to our
Brush tool. Then we can go to Window>Brushes, and choose some different brushes. So I'm going to go
into my general brushes and just choose this Hard Round Pressure brush. Now I don't actually have
pressure right now because I'm using a mouse. This time, I'm going to draw just a few lines on here
using a few different brushes.
So we have some swashes here. We pretty much filled up the whole space. And now I'm going
to go to Edit>Define Brush Preset. And we can see our little swashes brush here. I'm going to name
this Swashes. And then I'm just going to delete all this by filling it with my background color.
That's CMD Delete or CTRL Delete. And now you can see we have this huge brush. So I'm going
to reduce the size a little bit. On a Mac, you can do that with CTRL and OPT held down
and then slide to the left a little bit. There is an equivalent of doing that on a PC. I believe it
might be CTRL ALT, but I'm not 100% sure on that. Ok, so let's change our color. And I'm just going
to draw with this brush. So already we're getting some really interesting shapes just by clicking
and dragging. All right, I'm going to undo that. We can also make shapes by using our Selection
tool. So I'm going to go ahead and grab the Lasso Tool, and I'm going to just make some
little lassoed areas. I'm going to hold SHIFT so I can have more than one of them at a time.
And my computer is kind of lagging right now. I have a lot of programs open. I probably should
have done something about that before I decided to record. Ok, so I've got a lot of little dots here.
I'm going to hit D, again to make sure I have black as my fill color. And I'll hit OPT Delete
to fill these with the foreground color, which is black. So on a Mac, that's OPT Delete on a PC,
that's ALT Delete. Then we'll go up to Edit>Define Brush Preset, and we can call this one Splatter.
We'll say OK. Now I've got this huge brush. I'm going to reduce it quite a bit, maybe to 300.
I'll make sure to deselect with CMD D or CTRL D, and then I'll make a new layer. I'll hide
this layer...just going to draw with this. And of course, we can just click once and just get our
splatter pattern. All right, I'm going to select all and delete the things on these two layers.
And we'll just get rid of one of those layers. Now I'll hit CMD D, or CTRL D to
deselect everything. The final way I'm going to show you is with the Pen tool, so we'll hit P
to get our Pen tool. And then we can just draw really precise little pieces if we want to
with the Pen tool. And when you do this, you're actually creating little paths.
So I'll go ahead and do that. I'm going to make sure to fill my whole space.
And now I'm going to open Paths, which is under Window and actually
everything you see over here. That's all under Window, so you can just find it right here.
And then I'll double click this and rename it. It doesn't have to be anything specific.
And then hold CMD and click on the little white area to select all these pieces. Right
now I have everything selected. But those, and that can sometimes happen. There's a way to fix
that, but I'm not remembering it right now. So we can just Select the Inverse. So now I have only
those pieces selected. I'll go back to my layer and then OPT Delete or ALT Delete to fill those.
And then we can go ahead and do our Edit>Define Brush Preset. I'll call this Splotches. All right,
I'm going to Select all and Delete. That's CMD A or CTRL A and then just hit Delete.
I'll deselect with CMD D or CTRL D. And then I'm going to reduce the size of my brush. And
here's the effect of this brush. All right, so those are a few different tools that you can use
when you're creating your own brushes. Now, if you want part of your brush to be transparent,
there's a way to do that. Let me go ahead and select all here and delete and then deselect.
I'm going to go ahead and open up one of my general brushes. This one looks good.
And this time, I'm going to just draw 100% black piece. And then I'm going to change this to maybe
a brightness of 50. So when you're doing this, you'll want these two numbers of your HSB to be
zero. And then the B which is your brightness... this this hue, saturation and brightness...
to be 50 or whatever you want. So we'll say OK. Now I'm just going to draw a shape down here.
So this gray part is going to be transparent. So let's go ahead and define our brush,
Edit>Define Brush Preset. I'll call this one Transparent. I'll delete that and then I'm going
to make my brush a little bit smaller. Now you'll notice where they overlap, you have transparency.
Now when you're drawing like this, it is going to rapidly fill in that area. But you can still see
it's transparent at the beginning and end. Now when I make brushes, I actually don't like to
use this way of making it transparent. I like to go in and modify a brush I've already made
because there are some settings we can change to make that transparency look a little nicer.
So I'm going to delete all this. I'm going to select my swashes brush that I made earlier.
And I'm going to just reduce the size quite a bit. And now I'm going to go to Window>Brush Settings.
Now in here, we can change so much about our brush. And you can just kind of play
with these and see what they do. First I'm going to turn on Shape Dynamics,
and then I'll click on the word if this stuff over here isn't showing up. So I'm going to
change the Size Jitter. You can see a preview of what's going to happen with the brush down here.
Let's change the minimum diameter, the roundness that's interesting. The Angle Jitter... this one
really changes things. It randomizes the angle that your brush is going to be laid down.
I'm going to click on the very top one which is Brush Tip Shape. And here's where we can adjust
the spacing. So you can change the amount of space between your brush pieces. So there are a
lot of different options in here. I'm not going to go over all of them. If you go to Transfer,
you can adjust the Opacity Jitter. And this is what really changes the look of the brush. Ok,
so now when I use this, you can see if we zoom in that a lot of these are transparent,
so it's randomizing the transparency of this brush. With something like this, you could even
get kind of a crosshatch look. So in order to get some really interesting effects with your brushes,
you'll definitely want to go in and play around with these brush settings. And that's how easy it
is to make brushes in Photoshop. All right, if you liked this video and you want to see more videos
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