Brushes - Kate in Stars!

Brushes

• You can make a brush out of any image in Photoshop – Internet, scan etc
• Start with image
• Extract part that you want with elliptical marquee
• Copy
• File new (will be size of copied image)
• Paste
• Unview background
• Remove any white parts
• Adjust levels to make image brighter or more contrasted if desired
• Colour doesn’t matter, as it is a brush – make it any colour you like when using it
• Select all – edit – define brush preset
• New document
• Window- brush
• Select brush tool – find your brush
• Can now change colour on colour picker
• In brush window can squash, turn, flip, change size ([smaller ]bigger)
• To write with a brush –
• Pick font, write what you want
• Create new layer
• Use brush to go over text – can change sizes etc
• Unview text layer
• marge visible layers (not background)
• to save brush to computer – go to brush pallet – middle button at bottom – select what you want to save – save set and save to wherever you want