Hi, welcome back to the photoshoptrainingchannel.com, I'm Jesús Ramirez.
In this video, I'm going to show you how you can download over 1000 free high-quality Photoshop
brushes from Adobe. I'm also going to show you an efficient method
for organizing your brushes, and I'm gonna show you how you can make them available to
you from anywhere. You're also gonna learn several time-saving
keyboard shortcuts that I'm sure you'll enjoy. Okay, let's get started. The first step is
to select the Brush Tool. Then from the Options bar, you can click on
this dropdown, and you can right-click anywhere you want really and select Get More Brushes.
Or you can go into the Gear icon and click on Get More Brushes. This will open up your
browser and take it to an Adobe page with over a thousand Photoshop brushes from Kyle
Webster. These are high-quality brushes.
They come in different packs. I recommend downloading them all and trying them out.
The one that we're gonna try out today is, found here is called Concept. All you need
to do is click on the download button to download this pack.
This will download an ABR file, which is an Adobe brush file, and all you need to do is
click on it to install it into Photoshop. Photoshop has to be open for the brush to
install. If you have any problems installing the Photoshop
brushes using this method, then go back into Photoshop.
Make sure that the Brush Tool is selected. From the Options bar, click on the down-pointing
arrow, then on the Gear icon and select Import Brushes. Then find the ABR file on your computer
and open it. Now, that you've installed your Photoshop
brushes, all you have to do is find the pack. Click on the down-pointing arrow and scroll
down. You'll see all the brushes that you have in your installation of Photoshop.
You'll notice that I have installed all of Kyle Webster's brushes.
The one that I'm gonna work with is Concept. Open the folder, and this is what I recommend
that you do. I recommend that you click on the first brush
and create a new Layer and try out the brush. Then switch over into the next brush, but
instead of going into the dropdown and clicking the next brush and then painting, you can
use the keyboard shortcut; which is the greater than key.
That's the same key as the period in most American keyboards.
Then you can simply paint with the new brush. To go back into the previous brush, you can
tap on the less than key, which is the same key as a comma key in most American keyboards,
and you can just switch through the different brushes like this.
And I believe that this pack is really powerful. It has a whole bunch of different brushes
that I think will help you in many different scenarios. Really quickly, I'm just gonna
show you a couple. There's a Clouds brush. I'm gonna Press D
on the keyboard for my default colors, which will make black my foreground color, so we
can create smoke. Really cool Photoshop brushes. There're several Clouds brushes; I recommend
trying them all. There's also a brush called Crazy Cracks where
you can paint cracks like so, and I'm gonna tap on the less than key to go to the previous
version, which is also a Crack brush. So really, really cool brushes.
I'll create a new Layer, and I'll show you just a few more before I show you this really
cool technique on organizing the brushes that you preview. So I'm just gonna go down, and
I'm gonna find the Snow brush. There's a couple of Snow brushes here that
are really cool for adding snow to your images. This one here's Snowfall, I'll paint so that
you can see what it looks like. You can also resize your brush by tapping the left or right
bracket keys on a keyboard. Those are found next to the letter P. I would
recommend going through all of these brushes and finding the ones that you like and the
ones that you think will help you in your projects.
Now, if you remember on Adobe's website, you can download over 1000 free Photoshop brushes.
The problem is that there're so many brushes, and they might sometimes be difficult to find
if you forget exactly which pack you got them from or where in the pack they're located
or what they're called. So I'm gonna show you a technique that is
going to allow you to save your favorite brushes, and you'll have access to them from anywhere.
So what you need to do is create a new Library. You can go into the Libraries tab. If you
don't see the tab, you can go into Window, Libraries, then create a new Library.
You can create a new Library by clicking on this icon, the Flower menu and selecting Create New Library.
Give it whatever name you like. I'm gonna call mine
Favorite
Brushes.
Then I can simply start adding brushes into
my Library. One way to do that is to click on the Brushes panel.
If you don't see it, you can go into Window, Brushes and the brush that you currently have
active will be selected.
If that's the brush that you want to save,
you can simply click and drag that into the Libraries panel,
and you will see it there.
Currently, I'm viewing the contents of this library by group, but I can change it to View
by Type where I can see the type of the item that is in that library. I'm gonna work with
View by Groups so that I can organize my Photoshop brushes in a much more efficient way.
Start by creating a new group. Then name your group. You should give it a name that describes
the type of brushes that you're going to save inside of that group. For example, if you
are saving Special Effects Brushes, then I will call this group Effects and that will
be my Special Effects Brushes group. I can also create a new group by clicking
on this icon, and I can call that Retouching. So this could be my retouching brushes and
all I need to do now at this point is select the Brush Tool, start painting on my Layer
just to see what that brush does. If I don't like it, I can skip to the next one by tapping
on the greater than key, and I can just keep going through all the different brushes just
to see what they do. If I find one that I like, I can click on
the Brushes icon to open up the Brushes panel and that brush will automatically be selected,
and I can click and drag that into my Creative Cloud Library.
By default, it will go into the Not Grouped section. So you can click and drag it into
a group. For example, the FX group or my Retouching
group. In this case, this will be more of a Special Effects Brush so I would drop it
here. So that's the process. Go through all your
free Photoshop brushes,
find the ones that you like
and save those onto a Creative Cloud
Library. And you'll have access to these brushes from anywhere.
So if you're doing this process on your desktop, once you save them into a Creative Cloud Library,
you'll also have access to the brushes in your laptop.
And to select the brush from the Libraries panel is very easy.
Just click on it. So I can just click on this brush, which is
a Snowfall brush. And notice that Photoshop automatically switches
over to that brush and then I can start painting with it, and I can select the other brush
that I saved anytime that I like. Again, this is a really powerful method, and
I hope that you incorporate it into your workflow. Let me know in the comments below, which is
your favorite Photoshop brush and in what pack we can find it.
Maybe we can make the comments of this video a valuable resource for finding good Photoshop
brushes. Also, if you're interested in making your
own custom brush, then check out this video on Making Custom Brushes From Any Photo. I'm
sure that you'll enjoy it. I'll place the link for this tutorial down below in the description.
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