1. Find your source / photo, open in photoshop!
2. Use Brightness / Contrast to alter the image to how you want it.
3. Sharpen with unsharp mask to make it as crisp as possible.
4. Feather off the edges to pure white; pure white is ignored by the brush system, so you will need to make sure there is no pale grey, or use an airbrush with pure white around your brush so that you do not get a grey box effect (yuk!).
5. Select box and highlight the part of the image you want for your brush, then click Edit - Define Brush Preset.
6. Open brush selector and select your brush (last one on the list), then open the Brushes Palette.
7. Experiment! As with most creative things, the best way to learn is to play, experiment and learn what things do for yourself. In the Brushes Palette, click and toggle / play with every single option until you have picked up what everything does. Once you have a basic understanding of the functionality you can then decide what sort of brush you want to create, and then go about making it!
With the one brush, I simply changed the options in the Brush Palette to produce more brushes, and with these I created the image below, nothing special but an indication of how effective the photoshop brush system is.
Here are some types of brushes you could have a go at making:
Dust Particles / or hair brush (same sample just change the spacing!) - Drop dirt or pebbles onto a sheet of white paper and take a photo of it.
Paint Brushes - Load your (real) brush with paint, and make some strokes, photograph these and get experimenting!
Nature Brushes - Go at take some photos of tarmac, trees or any textures you like, just remember to feather off the edges with pure white.
Thanks for reading!
- Greg
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