With your brush, paint white on all of the areas that you don’t want to show up in your brush. Choose the brush tool, select a simple soft-edge brush, and use white as your foreground color. Step 7: Get Rid Of Stray Marks and Anything You Don’t Wantīefore we define the black areas as our custom brush, we may need to clean up our image. This allows you to set what should be the whitest point in your image.Ĭlick the darkest area within the light background in your inverted image (Not the cloud!), and click “OK.” The background isn’t a perfectly pure white, so open up your levels adjustment by hitting the command/ctrl key + “L” to bring up your levels dialog box.Ĭhoose the white eyedropper on the right side. Hit the command/ctrl key + “I” to invert your image, so that the black areas will be white and the white areas of the cloud will be black. When you are defining a brush, anything that is pure white won’t be included, and anything black or gray will show up as part of your brush. This will allow you to keep the highlights and shadows in your image, allowing your brush to look more natural. Go to Image > Adjustments > Desaturate to turn your image into a grayscale image. This way, if you end up using the cloud brush in the middle of your design, it will look natural without any sharp edges. The best kind of image to use for custom brushes are ones that don’t bleed off of the edge. Step 1: Find the Imageįor this example, I found a cloud image to use. Just like a photo, it’s okay to go from a large brush to a small brush, but if you create a brush from a low resolution image, it will look bad when used in large applications. Keep in mind that if you are going to create custom brushes, it’s a good idea to use large or high resolution images. You just have to know how to convert your images or objects into the right format to define them as brushes. You can use literally anything to create a custom brush. It can save you a lot of time if you just create your own brushes. There are thousands of brushes available online that you can download for your projects, but sometimes it can take hours to find the right brushes to get the specific look that you want. With brushes, you can blend masks, create effects, add textures, and create lighting. Brushes are one of the fundamental features in Photoshop.
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