• Brush Presets?
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Hey all. Bit of a basic post, but I'm curious as to how I can go about using the brush in Photoshop. I'm primarily a sketcher but I would like to go about setting up my brushes so I can both utilize digital painting and sketching, I've provided some examples below courtesy of Detlef (great work). [t]http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/013/d/5/altair_progress_by_luna133-d373tom.png[/t][t]http://www.image-share.com/upload/467/293.png[/t][t]http://i.imgur.com/N1boz.png[/t]
the stuff that comes with photoshop works fine. the main thing is finding a setup that works for you the main thing is setting up different attributes to alter based on your pen pressure. the two main ones are - size - opacity so basically the harder you press the bigger the paint/ink/whatever is laid down or the harder you press the thicker the paint/ink/whatever is laid down you can use one or the other or combine both into a brush - this is where it depends on the person and what you're looking to do i guess. when drawing i like to use a brush that changes size dependent on pressure but not opacity - this lets me draw nice thin or thick lines that are always the same opacity. when painting, however, i pretty much entirely remove the size variation caused by pressure and keep it to just opacity - this lets me blend tones and values more easily the other important point is setting your lower limit for the pressure ie. the minimum size/opacity that will be laid down no matter how lightly you press. this is really useful because it stops you drawing ridiculously thin lines or really low-opacity paint (the former of which might make your drawing look very scratchy and jagged, the latter of which might make your painting look very muddy and blurry) as for brush 'styles' honestly you're probably just best off learning the basics using a default hard round photoshop brush. there are also square brushes and chalk brushes that are a nice stepping stone to move onto after that. you don't need much more than that tbh until you start trying to get into speed-painting textures n stuff
Very useful information, thanks. Although I guess I'm making a bad decision painting on a Surface Pro 3 as I can't get the brushes to not look fucking awful.
i dont know what you mean by them looking fucking awful. the default round circular brush is fine to paint with. the default chalk brushes look pretty nice i know professional illustrators who use a surface as their main work device. or do you mean you're literally painting with your fingers on the touchscreen or something? i dunno what help i can offer you if that's the case - you're probably better off just getting a cheap tablet for like £40
[QUOTE=ChestyMcGee;46289764]i dont know what you mean by them looking fucking awful. the default round circular brush is fine to paint with. the default chalk brushes look pretty nice i know professional illustrators who use a surface as their main work device. or do you mean you're literally painting with your fingers on the touchscreen or something? i dunno what help i can offer you if that's the case - you're probably better off just getting a cheap tablet for like £40[/QUOTE] Nah I think I've figured it out. Sorry if there was any noticeable hostility right now, and thanks for your help. It's more so likely me still learning the ropes rather than the brushes being awful. Although I am curious about what brush I should use for sketching.
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