Photoshop Brushes Tutorial

Video Transcript

"Adobe Photoshop is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated, and I am in no way affiliated with Adobe. All right, so in this tutorial I want to show you guys a little bit about the brush tool. The brush tool is right over here on your layers--I mean, on your little palette on your left-hand side, your tools palette. You got the brush tool, the pencil tool, and the color replacement tool. Today we're just talking about the brush tool. Okay, so the brush tool is real basic. Whatever color you have picked down here--and we can do whatever color you want; we can do purple or blue or whatever. Let's do blue. So, as you can see down here, blue is selected and right up here at the top, as you can see brush, you click on that and it gives you options. You can make the brush, as you can see, it's a soft edge. Or what we can do, is we can actually bring that over to a hundred and make that an extreme hard edge. You can change the size of your brush, just by moving that up and down. Or we can change the type of brush over here, on the side, and you can do a weird-looking brush like this, and change the diameter to be up really high, and we got a weird-looking thing just like that. Now, these are my normal brushes right here, and if we go down right here--I'm sorry--right here, where the little arrow is, as you can see, if you click that button, you're going to get a whole array of buttons. Assorted brushes, calligraphy, drop shadow, special effects, you can even get square brushes, and you hit okay. Now you got yourself a bunch of square brushes, and you can obviously use your brush like a square. Now, you can also change the opacity of your brush, and what I want to do is actually go back, so just hit reset brushes to go back to your original brushes and I want to use a brush like this, but I want to bring down my hardness to zero and bring up my diameter to a little bigger. And also, there's a shortcut, the left and right brackets will actually make our brush a little bit bigger. If we just click on it and--left bracket goes down, right bracket goes up. You can change the opacity to, say for instance we want a fifty percent opacity, it's going to give us a lighter brush. And then the flow is kind of the same thing as opacity. But the cool thing is with this, you can do this little tool that I have up here, it's a--basically a pressure sensitive type deal. If I click and hold, that's all I'm going to get if the pressure sensitivity is not on. If I click it--click it on, and I click and hold, you're going to get yourself something that's cool, because it starts to bleed. It just keeps going and going, and it's kind of neat to get weird-looking things with that. And I really like to use this a lot--I mean, I have a Wacom tablet where I use this pressure-sensitive thing all the time, because I can click a little bit harder if I want a bigger brush, or click a little bit, you know, not as hard if I don't want such a thick brush. And this is just using the brush tool, and the basics of it. Thanks for listening. "