~Customize Brushes~Adobe Photoshop~
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Step I:
First thing to do is to open a new photoshop file. Make sure it is in grayscale mode, and make it 100px by 100px.
Step II:
This step requires just a little bit of artistic ability, so if that is not your strength, just do your best. Take a 3 pixel, 100% hardness brush and draw in a few birds in varying positions. You could do just one bird, but you will get a slightly more realistic looking flock if you put a few different ones. If you are really having difficulty drawing some birds, I 'm sure you can find some on the internet and then make a brush from those.
Step III:
Once you are happy with your birds, go to Edit, Define Brush Preset. Another dialogue box will pop up and you can give you brush a name if you wish.
Step IV:
Now when you go to your brush selections, you will find your bird brush as one of the options. It should be the very last brush on the list! Select that brush and get ready to customize!!!
Step V:
Now look for your brushes panel. It is normally located in the upper right hand corner of the screen. Click on the brushes tab and start customizing. I will not go into detail for all of the settings, however, below is a brief description of each setting:
Brush Tip Shape:
allows you to change the angle, roundness, hardness and spacing of your initial brush tip shape.
Shape Dynamics:
includes size, angle and roundness jitter. Makes it possible to randomize the shape of your initial brush, we will be using this for our brush later.
Scattering:
this makes it so that your brush tip shape is not placed on the canvas in a straight line, we will also be using this to customize our brush.
Texture:
this makes it possible to overlay a texture onto your brush.
Dual Brush:
a very cool feature that allows you to combine two different brushes. It even allows you to change how to two interact. We will not get into this setting in this tutorial, but mess around with it...it's very cool.
Color Dynamics:
allows you to use both foreground and background color on your brush as well as randomizing the hue, saturation and brightness.
Other Dynamics:
allows you to change the opacity and flow of the brush. We will also use this for our brush.
Noise, Wet Edges, Airbrush, Smoothing and Protect Texture do not provide additional options, but they do basically what the names say.
As a side note, if you have a tablet, there is also the ability to control most of these features with pen pressure, tilt, etc.
Step VI:
The next three steps show what settings I chose for the flock of birds brush. These are really a matter of personal taste and usually require some trial and error.
Here are the settings for Shape Dynamics.
Step VII:
Here are the Scattering options.
Step VIII:
And finally the Other Dynamics settings
Step IX:
Once you've played with the settings and are happy, you want to make sure and save the brush settings. This is done by clicking on the little arrow in the brush tab, and then selecting New Brush Preset. You can then give your brush a name.
Step X:
Now lets use our brush on a real photo. Open up whatever source file you want to use. For this tutorial I will use a source from sxc.hu (http://www.sxc.hu/photo/964480 - thanks redvisualg).
Step XI:
Click on the new layer icon
Step XII:
For this first part, i want the birds to be going from left to right, so under the brushed tab, click on Brush Tip Shape and then on the flip x box. Now the birds go from left to right!
Step XIII:
Now just draw the birds on the canvas!
Step XIV:
Lets create a little more depth to this pic. Make another new layer by clicking on the new layer icon again.
Step XV:
Click on the "Brush Tip Shape" again under the "Brushes" tab. Now unclick the "flip x" option and bump up the size of the brush to around 175 px.
Step XVI:
Draw some more birds, this time going from right to left.
Step XVII:
I wanted to add a few more birds so I flipped the brush one more time and did some in the upper left corner.
Step XVIII:
Now just a few more finishing touches...change the opacity of the first birds we drew to about 47% so they look more like they are in the distance.
Step XIX:
Next, duplicate the background pic by clicking on the layer and pressing ctrl-j. Then move it to the top of the layers palette and reduce the opacity to about 30%. This help to give the impression that the birds are off in the distance, you can see the sunrays overlapping them a little bit.
Step XX:
Finally, click on the layer mask icon and using a brush of about 350 px, 0% hardness, paint over the birds in the upper left corner, this will help them come to the very front!
Step XXI:
Here is the final version.
...Hope you learned again from my simple tutorial...
See you again next session..
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