How to Use Photoshop Brush Settings
This quick Photoshop tip will introduce you to the Brush Settings Menu. You will get a brief overview of the various options and controls along with an introduction to using brush dynamics to create custom brushes. This will also show my personal brush settings and the main controls that I use most in my professional work for creating concept art and digital paintings.
**NOTE: WACOM pen tablet or similar digital pen tablet required to follow along. Photoshop version CS3 demonstrated in video.
[ Click here to download my custom brush set ]
that’s pretty amazing that you do 80% of your stuff with just the basic round opacity brush — i use the same basic brush for all my digital work, but my paintings come out much worse
my question is: in what scenarios do you decide to switch away from the basic brush to one of the fancy custom brushes? and do you have any rules of thumb as to when to use which custom brush type? (i.e., are your pattern brushes designed for specific effects?)
thanks!
Custom brushes or texture brushes will give you nice edges quickly. So it’s a matter of efficiency, which really helps in the professional world. It took me a while to be able to use that basic brush. It’s all about the mileage so be patient with yourself.
Thanks a bunch for the tutorials. They are awesome! I wonder if I may ask you a couple of questions In the rendering concept art tutorials how did you smooth out your modeling? and how do you render lighter and darker objects in the same scene?
Thanks B, being able to smoothly model forms just comes with mileage, sorry there’s no photoshop trick for that
As for light and dark objects, do you have an example?
Thanks for getting back to me. For example when you have a whole scene to do and you have background and forground elements and some of them might be inherently darker than others for example a red ball, a yellow umbrella and a black can, how do you keep them looking as if they are in the same intensity of light? I imagine that a red ball shadow would be darker than the yellow umbrellas but how do you measure how much darker? Here is a new question… hope I don’t bug you too much… what about keeping them consistent to certain color of light? Sorry for the bunch of questions, thanks in advance. I’ve been struggling with this.
Hey Chris great tutorial. Aways wonder how you used your brushes. Thanks for sharing your process and brushes presets. About the other tutorial, do you plan to finish the tentacle creature concept? Keep posting.Thanks .
Tnx allot for the tips and brushes! It is quite amazing how difficult and complex effects can be done so easily with just one brush!
Tnx again…
thanks for the tut! im totally new to painting, traditionally & digitally…
i think your brush presets link is broken? are you able to fix it up?
overly desperate to download them
cheers
Thanks for the brushes… that was very nice of your to share! I am enjoying learning how to use my wacom tablet and use photoshop to do some illustrations…
You’re welcome. Show me some of your work with the brushes sometime.
OK thank you. Will look into it.
Man!
You’re great! And thank you for these tutorials… i’m watching them without stop.
i’m from Brazil and this is really helping me cause we don’t have good concept design schools in my city… so thanks man!
You really helped me
Wow! Very nice. Thanx for sharing it.