Working with the Brushes Palette

You’ll find the Brushes palette extremely useful for changing the characteristics of preset brush tips and for creating your own. You can also access and select brush presets. You can view the Brushes palette in several ways:
- Choose Window➪Brushes from the menu bar.
- Click the Brushes palette tab in the Palette Well.
- Click the Brushes palette button on the right side of the Options bar.
- Grab the Brushes palette’s tab and drag it out of the Palette Well and onto your Photoshop desktop. This mode keeps the Brushes palette visible until you put it away by dragging it back to the Palette Well, clicking its close box, or rendering it hidden with the Window➪Brushes command.

The Brushes palette displays a list of brush properties on the left and includes a brush stroke preview at the bottom of the palette.
The largest pane in the dialog box is the upper-right area that shows various types of information, such as the size and type of brush tip, or the different controls offered for any of the 12 different properties you can set. Click the Brush Presets label in the upper-left. The various preset previews appear in the right panel.