Photoshop has two brush palettes, in a sense. The Brush Preset picker, is tucked away in the Options bar and appears when you click the down-pointing triangle next to the box that displays the currently active brush tip. Photoshop has a large number of predesigned brush presets that you can use. The default set includes six round, hard-edged brushes (which still have softer edges than the Pencil tool) and a group of 12 round soft-edged brushes. There are also airbrush, spatter, and natural media brush tip presets, as well as a group of brush tip shapes such as stars, leaves, and other shapes. And Photoshop CS has even more brush libraries, so go crazy.
A preset brush’s pixel diameters are shown as text below a thumbnail image of the brush shape when the palette’s display is in default mode. (I show you how to change the default display of the Brushes Preset picker shortly.) To use one of these brush tips, just click the Brush Preset picker arrow in the Options bar and choose the tip you want from the scrolling preset list. You can augment your choices with any of the following options:
- Move the Master Diameter slider to change the diameter of the selected brush. This is a quick way of getting a slightly larger or smaller brush when none of the presets meet your needs exactly. For example, the largest hard-edged brush preset is 19 pixels in diameter. You can click this brush tip and move the slider to the right to get a hardedged brush in any size up to 2500 pixels.
To change the brush size from the keyboard when a tool is active, press the ] key (the right bracket) to increase the size and the [ key (the left bracket) to decrease the size. The amount of change varies according to the initial size of the brush. To adjust the size more dramatically, hold down the bracket key.
- Choose the Use Sample Size option to get brush strokes of equal size. This option is new to Photoshop CS. Depending on the size settings in your Shape Dynamics characteristics, when you use a scatter brush, such as a fish or flower, you will get random variations in sizes. Select the Use Sample Size option before you use the brush to get a consistently sized stroke every time based on a preset sample size. Note that you must select the option each time you use the brush and you must also click, not drag, the brush for each individual stroke to be equally sized.
- Choose any of the library of additional brush tip presets provided with Photoshop. Click the Brush Preset picker palette’s pop-up menu and choose one of the other brush libraries shown at the bottom. They have names like Special Effect Brushes, Calligraphic Brushes, and Faux Finish Brushes. Select one to append the brushes to your current set or to replace the current set with the library you select (a dialog box appears that offers a choice of either action).
You can also manage brush tip libraries by using the Preset Manager.
- Select your own custom library of brush tips that you’ve created. Click Load Brushes to append new brushes to your current collection or to replace them with the new library. Another option that may be available is the Hardness slider. If available, adjust this slider to make the brush more (higher) or less (lower) fuzzy.
A preset brush’s pixel diameters are shown as text below a thumbnail image of the brush shape when the palette’s display is in default mode. (I show you how to change the default display of the Brushes Preset picker shortly.) To use one of these brush tips, just click the Brush Preset picker arrow in the Options bar and choose the tip you want from the scrolling preset list. You can augment your choices with any of the following options:
- Move the Master Diameter slider to change the diameter of the selected brush. This is a quick way of getting a slightly larger or smaller brush when none of the presets meet your needs exactly. For example, the largest hard-edged brush preset is 19 pixels in diameter. You can click this brush tip and move the slider to the right to get a hardedged brush in any size up to 2500 pixels.
To change the brush size from the keyboard when a tool is active, press the ] key (the right bracket) to increase the size and the [ key (the left bracket) to decrease the size. The amount of change varies according to the initial size of the brush. To adjust the size more dramatically, hold down the bracket key.
- Choose the Use Sample Size option to get brush strokes of equal size. This option is new to Photoshop CS. Depending on the size settings in your Shape Dynamics characteristics, when you use a scatter brush, such as a fish or flower, you will get random variations in sizes. Select the Use Sample Size option before you use the brush to get a consistently sized stroke every time based on a preset sample size. Note that you must select the option each time you use the brush and you must also click, not drag, the brush for each individual stroke to be equally sized.
- Choose any of the library of additional brush tip presets provided with Photoshop. Click the Brush Preset picker palette’s pop-up menu and choose one of the other brush libraries shown at the bottom. They have names like Special Effect Brushes, Calligraphic Brushes, and Faux Finish Brushes. Select one to append the brushes to your current set or to replace the current set with the library you select (a dialog box appears that offers a choice of either action).
You can also manage brush tip libraries by using the Preset Manager.
- Select your own custom library of brush tips that you’ve created. Click Load Brushes to append new brushes to your current collection or to replace them with the new library. Another option that may be available is the Hardness slider. If available, adjust this slider to make the brush more (higher) or less (lower) fuzzy.
Using the Preset Brushes in Photoshop
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