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Creating Your Own Photoshop Brushes

Today I am going to show you a very simple way to turn anyone/anything into a photoshop brush.

Step 1.) Open the image you want to turn into a photoshop brush and crop out all unwanted areas.

Open and crop image

Open and crop image

Step 2.) Next you will need to convert the image to black and white. When defining a brush anything that is black will be the brush part, and anything that is white will be the negative space.

You can do this next step in two ways:

  1. Go to Image>mode>grayscale
  2. Go to Image>Adjustments>black & white

I prefer the second method because it doesn’t discard the color information.

Step 3.) Next go to Image>Adjustments>Posterize. This will bring up a small screen where you can select as many steps between white and black as you want. For example, selecting “2″ will leave you with just black and white. For this tutorial I used a setting of 4.

posterize image

posterize image

Step 4.) Now go to Edit>Define Brush Preset. A box will pop up prompting you to name your brush. Name it and click ok.

Defining Brush

Defining Brush

Now when you select your brush you will see a new brush in your palette. This gives you the ability to create an image or shape over and over again in any color with little effort. It is great for creating patterns, background, and other fun graphics.

Brush Demo

Brush Demo

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9 Responses to “Creating Your Own Photoshop Brushes”

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  3. February 16th, 2009 at 11:45 am

    gfxdude says:

    Wow! what an idea ! What a concept ! Beautiful .. Amazing

  4. February 28th, 2009 at 6:03 am

    Applebees says:

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  5. February 28th, 2009 at 2:54 pm

    admin says:

    @Applebees
    Thanks for the comment. I try to provide quality information and fun tutorials.

    And BTW…I like my wordpress page. Also, please don’t use my blog to create link backs for your restaurant.
    Jon

  6. March 3rd, 2009 at 8:16 pm

    nice review says:

    I wanted to comment and thank the author, good stuff

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    sean potter says:

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  9. July 6th, 2010 at 10:07 am

    admin says:

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