before we get started with particle shop
I want to talk a little bit about the
menu structure the actual brush display
in particle shop is going to be
truncated and so I want to show you what
the full list looks like which you'll
probably see with no problem on your
larger display secondly I want to talk
about the names you can see what happens
in particle shop is these names are
going to get truncated you're not going
to see the full name over here I'm
showing you what those full names are
secondly I want to show you that this
blue coloration indicates that these are
brushes that blend color they don't
apply color the one exception is smear
paint and you can see over here in the
actual list that it shows a little color
that's because it does start off with
color but then it tapers off to just
picking up color and the brushes that
are displayed as black actually apply
color and the other thing I want to show
you here is I'm going to turn this
little overlay on you'll see that some
of these brushes have the same starting
name in this case we've got Harry blend
and Harry stroke anytime a brush starts
with the first name and isolated them by
color boxes here that means those
brushes are the same brush but they will
behave somewhat differently so you can
see the Harry blend is a brush that's
not going to apply color but it's going
to use the same brush qualities as
you're going to get in the Harry stroke
brush which does apply color so
particularly in the case of this sketch
brush you've got three different
versions of it that you can use two of
them will apply color and one is going
to only blend color there is some
information available just in the way
these are colored with in the actual
particle shop display when we open it up
but as I said you'll see some of these
names you can't read all of them and
that's just a condition of the way
particle shop works let's go ahead now
and take a look at particle shop I've
got it installed as a panel here
Photoshop CC I'm going to duplicate the
active layer which right now is simply
the background so let's go ahead launch
particle shop here we are and I've got
my color palette I like to keep it
pinned right here over this area of the
other packs and that way I can
concentrate on my painting and keep my
color palette right close at hand as I
mentioned earlier you can see how this
is truncated because I'm working on a
lower resolution screen I can't open
this up all the way to see all of the
brushes at once so I do have to navigate
through here the other thing is you can
see many of these brushes the name is
too long to see the whole name so you'll
have to get by memorizing or getting
used to where these are within this
layout let's go ahead and try a few of
these out I'm going to start with the
dripper brush and as you can see this
just applies random splatters of paint
much in the spirit of Jackson Pollock a
50s abstract expressionist painter
gouache is another one and I'm not going
to try to do anything right now I'm just
going to show you these you can see one
thing about watches each stroke the
color is slightly changing that is true
a few of these brushes the hairy stroke
is just what it says it's a hairy stroke
and we've also got horse tail I'm just
going to keep changing colors here so we
can see the different brushes you can
see how this has that kind of horse tail
appearance it starts large and then fans
out a bit this one also you can see just
slightly changes color for each stroke
to give you a little variability old
clumpy is similar to hairy stroke with
the hairs of the brush are much larger
so you get a little bit more of a gnarly
kind of look to it gets quick is one
that I'll use a little bit more later
one reason I like this is it almost
looks like when you're drawing on a
paper napkin you you draw very loosely
and sometimes several lines overlap when
you're just simply trying to get an idea
out on paper also this get twist similar
but it does in a very fine version so
you get that same
multiplicity of stroke we've also got
wet bristle and this one starts off with
the color that is current but you can
see how it tapers off and becomes more
of a blender with the colors that it
finds underneath of it
smear paint is another brush that has a
somewhat coarse tale-like feel but again
they're all different and just depending
on what kind of stroke you want you'll
find each one of these gives you a very
different kind of feel okay now let's
take a look at the blenders we'll start
here the Harry blender acts just like
the Harry stroke except it's not going
to lay down paint same kind of
constitution of the brush hairs but
we're not applying paint at this point
so this becomes a good tool for blending
same with the horse blend it's like the
horse tail brush itself but once again
it does not pick up color and none of
these will puller has a rather granular
kind of look to the way that it picks up
underlying color wispy blend is another
very fine type brush that is good for
detail and finally we get to mirror
blend which I really like this one has a
very complex look as to the way it mixes
up the paint that it finds underneath of
it okay let's go ahead and we'll save
this and I'm going to save only the
brushstrokes and I'll say okay and now
we've got our original and we've got our
version that has the brushstrokes atop
it I'm going to do a little sketch on
top of this background so I'm going to
go ahead and launch particle shot again
I'm going to select my sketch quick
brush here and let's just do a little
bit of drawing here
and you can see how I just want to get a
very spontaneous look with this
switch to the
get with the brush here just to put a
little bit of color
and I'll put a little bit of fear into
this the expression brushes give you a
way to create some paint strokes within
Photoshop that you can't do with the
Photoshop brushes so it's a great extra
bit of kit to have along with Photoshop
you've got basically painter inside
Photoshop