Working with Brushes in Photoshop

Working with Brushes:

Working with brushes is an important part of using the painting and editing tools. The brush you select determines many characteristics of the resulting stroke. Photoshop and ImageReady provide a variety of present brushes to fill a wide range of uses. In Photoshop, you can also create custom brushes using the Brushes palette.

Brushes Palette:

Click on Window menu > Brushes, or click the palette button on the right side of the options bar if you have a painting tool, erasing tool, toning tool, or focus tool selected.

Selecting Preset Brushes:

The Brush pop-up palette in the options bar for the painting and editing tools lets you view, select, and load preset brushes. In Photoshop, you can also use the Brushes palette to view, select and load preset brushes.

Following steps will help you to select the preset brush:

1.Click a brush in the Brush pop-up palette or Brushes palette.

2. Specify a diameter for the brush by dragging the slider or entering a value. If the brush has a dual tip, both the primary and dual brush tips are scaled.

3. Click Use Sample Size to use the original diameter of the brush tip. This option is available only if the brush tip shape is based on a sample.

To change view of preset brushes:

Choose a display option from the Brush pop-up palette menu or Brushes palette menu:

1.Text Only to view the brushes as a list.

2. Small or Large Thumbnail to view the brushes as thumbnails.

3. Small or Large List to view the brushes as a list with thumbnails.

4. Stroke Thumbnail to view a sample brush stroke with each brush thumbnail.