Hi There I’m Cher Pendarvis artists and write of the Painter Wow and Painter Tablet books.
In this video I will demonstrate how to import stamp based Photoshop brushes into Painter and
give an example on how a brush can be adjusted to paint nicely in Painter.
To begin you can search the web for free stamp based Photoshop brushes and
download them or you can choose some of your own Photoshop brushes.
If you want to import your own brushes into Painter here are some guidelines;
In Photoshop create your own brushes in greyscale or RGB color space.
If you save a size with your brush in Photoshop it may not import successfully into Painter.
Brushes based on default Photoshop brushes may not import.
And finally special Photoshop media for instance Mixer brush pre-sets will not import.
To import brushes a Photoshop brush set, choose brushes, import, new from Photoshop Brush Stamps.
Navigate to your Photoshop brush set and I am going to choose Cher Brushes Natural 2.abr
Click open and the new brush dialog category will come up and you can rename your brush pack
if you want to and watch as Painter creates a new category, when it is finished click OK.
You’ll find your new category in the active Painter brush library, I can scroll down to the bottom and there is my category.
Now I’d like to show you how to adjust the settings of the brush.
Choose a brush from your newly imported brush set. I am going to choose 1 – Cher Brushes Natural 2.
Using your stylus make a practice stroke with your brush, you’ll notice it looks a little ragged,
the first setting to adjust is spacing between the stamps or footprints of the brushstrokes.
Open the brush controls if you don’t already have it open by choosing Windows>Brush Control Panel>General.
In the brush controls, click on the spacing tab and you’ll see Painter has suggest settings.
I am going to reduce the spacing to 7 for this particular brush.
Make a mark and you’ll see how much expressive and smooth just with that setting.
You can enjoy the brush as is or you can change its media type. This is how it looks as a water color brush.
In the general panel, choose method>Wet. In the sub category choose Grainy Wet Abrasive.
Now with this method a new watercolor method is going to be generated when I paint with a watercolor brush.
So I am going to open a new document right here so we can see this more clearly. See our watercolor brush stroke.
You can also change it into a real watercolor brush by changing the subcategory to real wet color.
You can see now you get a more transparent looking stroke.
I hope you enjoyed this video that covers importing stamp based Photoshop brushes into Painter and happy painting!