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Tutorials
Managing your brushes
Oct 18th 2005
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Managing your Brushes:
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How well do you really know your Brushes Palette?
Brushes are used for each of the painting tools (airbrush, paintbrush, eraser, pencil) and image editing tools (history brush, rubber stamp, smudge, focus, toning), so it really pays to know your way around it. I'll give you a quick tour: show you a few shortcuts, and show you how to create, delete and load brushes. |
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Here's some quick shortcuts references:
Version 5.0/ 5.5
• F5 shows/hides palette.
• Click in empty area of palette creates new brush.
• Command-click (Windows= Control-click) brush deletes brush.
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Click the brush in the Brushes palette, and choose Delete Brush from the palette menu.
• [ or ] cycles through brushes in your palette.
• Shift + [ selects first brush in your palette.
• Shift + ] selects last brush in your palette.
• Double-click a brush = edits brush options.
Version 6.0
• To delete a brush, Click the brush in the Brushes palette, and choose Delete Brush from the palette menu.
• [ or ] cycles through brushes in your palette.
• click current brush = edits brush options.
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Version 6.0
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Version 5.0/ 5.5
Making a New Brush:
1 Do one of the following:
• Click in an empty square in the Brushes palette.
• Choose New Brush from the Brushes palette menu.
2 The preview box in the lower right corner of the New Brush dialog box shows the current brush tip. The box in the lower left corner shows the current brush angle and roundness. As you enter new options, the brushes in these boxes update.
You can change the brush options (Diameter, Hardness, Spacing, Angle, and Roundness) until you have the tip you want (see step 4).
3 Click OK. New brushes appear at the bottom of the palette.
Version 6.0
Making a New Brush:
1 Do one of the following:
• Click the inverted arrow next to the brush sample to display the pop-up palette in the options bar, and choose New Brush from the pop-up palette menu.
• Click the brush sample in the options bar to display the options of the selected brush. Then click New to save this brush as a preset.
2 The preview box in the lower right corner of the New Brush dialog box shows the current brush tip. The box in the lower left corner shows the current brush angle and roundness. As you enter new options, the brushes in these boxes update.
You can change the brush options (Diameter, Hardness, Spacing, Angle, and Roundness) until you have the tip you want (see step 4).
3 Click OK. New brushes appear at the bottom of the palette. |
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Here's what all the controls in the Brushes Options Dialog mean. Keep in mind to affect changes, you can either type a number in the entry fields or drag the slider. Personally, I'm a slider guy.
Diameter
Controls the size of the brush.
Hardness
Controls the size of the brush’s hard center. The value you enter is a percentage of the brush diameter.
Spacing
Controls the distance between the brush marks in a stroke. Increasing the spacing makes the brush skip areas. To paint without any spacing, uncheck the box.
Angle
Specifies the angle by which an elliptical brush’s long axis is offset from horizontal. Type a number in the degrees field, or drag the horizontal axis (that's the one with an arrow on the end) in the left preview box.
Roundness
Specifies the ratio between the brush’s short and long axes. Enter a percentage value, or move the black dot points in the left preview box. 100% is a round brush, 0% is a line brush, and intermediate values indicate elliptical brushes.
Notice the changes I made between the two boxes. When I'm all done, the new brush  appears at the bottom of my palette. |
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Here's a tip that's bound to come in handy sooner or later.
When you click once with a brush, you get one dot. If you click somewhere else, another dot. Big Deal. But if you Hold the Shift Key as you make that second click, what you get is a whole line of brush strokes between the two. It's a great shortcut that lets you paint perfectly straight lines. |
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We'll load some new brushes now. Photoshop comes with a bunch of extra brushes you may like to try. Choose Load Brushes from the Brushes palette menu. Navigate to where your copy of Photoshop is, and go into the Goodies Folder (in Photoshop 6.0, it's the Presets Folder you want.) Inside there, you guessed it, it's the Brushes Folder we want.
To the left there, there's a group of brushes called Calligraphic Brushes that come with 6.0.
Next, there's a few of the Assorted Brushes from 5.0/ 5.5.
I'm still searching for a job that requires me to paint lots of little geese or reindeer, but they are lots of fun to play with. |
I hope you've learned a bit about you brushes palette. Now hopefully you know a couple things that will help you work faster and let never be limited to the brushes that appear in the palette.
Brush Regularly! |
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