Introduction to Photoshop for Illustrators
Course 2: Drawing and Composition: Making Brushes
By Gemma Gould
About the video: Making Brushes
Overview
“In this lesson we will see how easy it is to make and save our own custom brushes, using scanned textures and photographs. ”
In this video lesson Gemma Gould addresses the topic: Making Brushes, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 2: Drawing and Composition. Start sketching and learn to digitize your artwork.
Partial transcription of the video
“PHOTOSHOP FOR ILLUSTRATORS / COURSE 2 LESSON 3 Making Brushes Now I'll show you how to make your own brushes from photos, textures and objects and how to save them. Let's have a look. In addition to editing existing brushes or buying new ones, we can expand our brush toolbox by creating our own unique brushes, from scanned textures or photographs. First, we'll open our texture image in Photoshop. I found leaves and rocks in the garden, which I thought might be interesting. To make a good brush we have to start with a good quality image. Scanning textures, we generally want the image to be a...”
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Course summary for: Course 2: Drawing and Composition

Gemma Gould
By Gemma Gould
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