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Making Photoshop Brushes
Well, everyone wants brushes, why not have the ability to make your own. This tutorial will show you the basic steps needed to make a brush.
We all like to learn how to do new things, and besides this is fun!
Keep in mind this is meant to be simple, so I'm not going to get all complicated with this.
First we need an image to make a brush from. So I googled Butterfly. and This Site gave me the butterfly.
Click to make bigger. (Save it and open it in photoshop or copy and paste it in)
Now I'm all for making large brushes but this is a little too big for us, so let's size it down to about 50%
Image > Image Size
In the width place 50 and change Pixels to percent.
Now we have a large brush idea but not as big as before. This makes a difference as the size the image is is the size your brush will be...
The point is to select the butterfly. We can do this by carefully extracting it using the lasso tool, or we can do it by using the magic brush and clicking the white. (Adjust tolerance higher if it's not selecting enough. Mine was seyt at 25% tolerance to get a good grip around the butterfly.)
By using the magic brush we only get the white selected which isn't what we want. so inside your selection right click and click "Select Inverse"
We have our butterfly selected, all we need to do now is give it a little feather, for the areas we're not sure about. This will pull it in a bit to help with the selection making sure the white we don't want is gone.
Right click inside the selection and select feather. This number should never be high. 1 or 2 is perfectly acceptable. Higher and you'll lose the image.
In our case, we really don't need the feather - so I skipped it. (1px feather cuts the attenas off... we don't want that ^_^
So now the really hard part .... click Edit and then Define brush.
Give your brush a name, and click ok.
You're done. Haha.
Always good to make a blank canvas and test it out though! So let's... test it out!
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