Adobe Photoshop Painting & Brushes
This week we are working with Photoshop Brushes and painting -- several good ones here including Defining the Brush; The Painting Engine; paint Layers (TTU.edu); Understanding the Brushes Palette; Making Clouds with Brushes; customizing brushes; Defining the Brush, and an excellent Photoshop Brush tutorial by Janee
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- Adobe Photoshop 7 Beginner (FAU.edu)
I have learned that with the paintbrush tool you can paint the layer or image that you are working on according to a color that you select from the paintbrush options bar. If a color is not selected from the options bar, it defaults to the color of the foreground. The paintbrush allows your work to have a “soft, brushed effect”. However, not only can you select to have the soft, brushed effect to your work, but you can also click on “Wet Edges” checkbox to achieve a watercolor effect.
Posted on 2/2/2004 - Intro to Adobe Photoshop: Defining the Brush
The website, Introduction to Adobe Photoshop: Defining the Brush, is an excellent source from which one can learn to expand the style of the tools he or she uses when creating images. The site, which is maintained by eXtropia, thuroughly explains the vocabulary and function of the brush tool in Adobe Photoshop, and provides information on how to customize various aspects of the tool. The site is especially helpful due to its inclusion of easy-to-read diagrams and instructions on how to reset to the program's default settings.
Posted on 2/2/2004 - Adobe Photoshop 7 "The Painting Engine"
The Painting Engine simulates traditional painting techniques such as pastels, charcoal, and wet/dry brush effects. Using the Brushes Palette, the user is able to adjust settings for shape, texture, other attributes, and save those settings as custom brush presets. The user is also able to create new painting effects by combining two different brushes. Photoshop's new Auto Color command allows the user to adjust the contrast and color of an image. Photoshop 7 is also well equipped for removing color casts.
Posted on 2/2/2004 - Working with Photoshop Layers (TTU.edu)
This webs ite gave a thourough decription of Photoshop's layers feature. It is escentially a listing of every feature the layers offer. These include, multiple transparent sheets in which each can be altered individually without affecting the other layers. One can change the opacity of each layer, add special effects to each layer and add or delete layers at will. Layers are one of Photoshop's best features.
Posted on 2/2/2004 - Photoshop Brush tutorial by Janee
This is a site set up by an individual which gives some helpful instructions and tips for using the paint and brush tools on Photoshop. It give information and visual examples of the differences between the results of using each brush and several methods of achieving textures and shapes you may want with each one. The site also goes on to give step by step tutorials of drawing certain objects and using brush presets.
Posted on 2/2/2004 - Intro to adobe photoshop Brushes
"Brush" is the term given to any of the drawing tools. Its easier to think of the brush as the "drawing edge" of whatever tool you are using. You can change the shape or size of your brush by accessing the "options" palatte. When choosing the size of your brush, you can also choose a hard or a soft edge, except when youre using the pencil. You can change the diameter, hardness, spacing, and roundness of the brush by clicking on "new brush" in the options palatte. customizing brushes
Posted on 2/2/2004 - Making Clouds with Brushes
I found a tutorial that shows you how to make clouds with brushes. Use the Heavy Smear Wax Crayon brush and make the opacity 100%. Paint using white paint. Making the brush different sizes will give you more realistic looking clouds. Next, create a new layer with a gradient. Use the origional brush as an ereasor with the opacity around 45% and erease the gradient in the lighter parts parts. Then use the burn tool to makek the darker part of the clouds. Link the two layers adn make them one and use the blur tool to make the values fade in and out, and poof, you have clouds.
Posted on 2/2/2004 - Photoshop 7: Understanding the Brushes Palette
This site explains in detail how to use the brushes palette, and how to manipulate the different brushes to get a desired effect. Within the palette, you can modify the diameter, angle, roundness, hardness, and spacing of the brushes. The site also shows how to use different options like the fade and pen pressure options.
Posted on 2/2/2004 - Adobe Photoshop: Defining the Brush
This web site was very descriptive and explained most evey feature the paint brush has to offer. It's in-depth descriptions allows the reader to get an idea of how options like spacing, angle, and roundness work. It would be very helpful to someone interested in every minute detail of how this tool works. customizing brushes
Posted on 2/2/2004 - The Work Area, Tools, and Palettes
To find out about layer blending modes scroll to the bottom of the site. There are listed the different blending options and their uses. The blending modes available to a layer are Darken, Multiply, Normal, Dissolve, Color Burn, Linear Burn, Lighten, Screen, Color Dodge, Linear Dodge, Overlay, Vivid Light, Hard Light, Soft Light, Pin Light, Difference, Exclusion, Hue, Saturation, Color, Luminosity. Each of blending mode is broken into three effects: the base color, blend color, and result color. The base color is the actual color used. The blend color is the color applied with the painting tool, and the result color is the color that is shown out of the blend. How these all three effects work together make the blending mode appear.
Posted on 2/2/2004 - Draw a Christmas tree - lights and stuff
This page is a good resource for freedrawing natural subject matter in a digital means. The site gives you a basic idea on how to use a refrence point, much like real drawing to gain the feeling, as well as talking about brush selection being very important. This site also contains numerous other resources for photoshop techniques and tricks that range in skill level needed. (Team Photoshop)
Posted on 2/2/2004 - Photoshop paint tools
Photoshop offers four paint tools: the Pencil tool, the Paintbrush, the Airbrush, and the Paint Bucket. The pencil tool draws hard, dark edges. The paintbrush is softer and somewhat transparent. The airbrush is the softest line and is transparent. All these tools have differing brush sizes, shapes, and patterns that can be selected within Photoshop. The paint bucket simply fills in a background with a solid color of your choice.... drawing and paint tools
Posted on 2/2/2004 - Photoshop: Primary Painting Tools
The three primary painting tools are the Brush, the Pencil, and (for removing) the Eraser. A number of other tools don't add new paint to your image. Instead, they modify the pixels that are already there. These "paint modifiers" include the Blur, Sharpen, Smudge, Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools.
Posted on 2/2/2004 - Photoshop Toolbar Overview
There are many options and choices to choose from for painting and brushes. There is the airbrush tool, the paintbrush and penical tool, history brush tools, and the gradient and paint bucket tools. the airbrush tool gives you gradual saturation and works alot like a real airbrush tool would. The paintbrush and pencil tool is a painting tool that applies the current foreground color with a brush stroke. There are several different brush types, sizes, and also has an option for wet edges. the history brush tool will allow you to copy and previous state of the image in the history to the current state. finally the gradient and paint bucket tools have five gradient selections, the difference in the tools is in how the gradient shades are applied. The gradient tool is grouped with the paint bucket in the toolbar. The paint bucket will recolor pixels, of any color you click on, to be the current foreground color.
Posted on 2/2/2004 - Brush Magic Photoshop 7 Tutorial
I like this tutorial site because each tutorial is named very practically. Rather than just grouping them together by topic, each tutorial is geared towards a specific task or application. This tutorial is very helpful using screenshots to show how to navigate through the paintbrush options that are available. It even mentions a few things that you can only do with Photoshop 7, or in other words improvements over previous versions. I would recommend this site to everyone for reference in future assignments. You might have to read a bunch of tutorial titles before you find exactly what you want, but it will probably be worth it.
Posted on 2/2/2004 - Adobe Photoshop Fundamentals: Painting
This was a really good, straightforward tutorial which teaches good foundational skills. The one draw back is that it is for photoshop 4, so I guess there is alot more out there to learn now. However, it did go over how to set make your own brushes. One can also save created colors by saving them on the swatches palette.
Posted on 2/2/2004
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