Remember: Areas filled with white become transparent, so you won’t see them when you’re saving the brush or painting with the brush.Īreas filled with black will be 100% visible and if your brush includes various shades of gray than those areas will be partially visible depending on how close they are to black or white with darker shades of gray being more visible than lighter shades. The reason behind it is that, all the Brushes in Photoshop are Grayscale which means that a brush can contain only black, white or shades of gray in between.

We created our New Document with Background Contents set to White. To learn the use of Brush Tool, you can read our Photoshop Lesson on ‘ How to use Brush Tool in Photoshop‘.

For the sake of simplicity and as this Photoshop Lesson is about creating an understanding of how to create a brush rather than creating a particular brush, I’ll be creating something random without any meaning. Now, you’ve the freedom to draw anything using your brush tool with any of it’s brush preset. The 300 x 300 pixel size I’m using here usually works well for me. The recommended idea is to create your new brush just large enough to suit your needs which may involve some trial and error. It’s important to note that brushes we create ourselves are pixel-based brushes which means they’re essentially images and behave exactly the same way as regular images when it comes to resizing them.īrushes will usually remain crisp and sharp when we make them smaller than default size but if you increase their size much beyond the default, they’ll become soft and dull looking. The size at which you initially create the brush will become its default size. For typical work, you’ll want to create brushes much smaller. At that size, the brush will require a lot more memory and processing power from your computer which can slow your system down considerably. Photoshop allows us to create brushes as large as 5000 by 5000 pixels but it doesn’t mean you should. New Document dialog box Initial size for custom brush

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