Brush Presets


Brush Presets

Presets are how photoshop remembers your individual brush settings.


With the brush tool selected, click the brushes palette button on the right of the toolbar
Bursh Presets

Presets are how photoshop remembers your individual brush settings.

With the brush tool selected, click the brushes palette button on the right of the toolbar
Brush presets

-        Display the brush tips available in the current set
Brush Tip shape

-        Here you can pick a brush tip, alter it’s size, flip it along one or both axes, squash it, rotate it and choose how tightly spaced the nib will appear when drawn in a continues line. (100% means the brush will be stamped one full width of the brush apart)

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To make this clearer, I’m going to use an arrow brush to illustrate the different settings.

-        The brush stamped once with default settings.

-        With spaing set to 100% I drew a straight line
-        Spacing at 5% and then 200%

-        Spacing at 100% and ‘shape dynamics’ ticked, size jitter set to 0% and ‘Control’ set to pen pressure

-        Same as above but with size jitter set to 100% and no pen pressure control.
-        Size jitter set to 0%, no pen control, angle jitter set to 100%

-        Same as above but with angle jitter set to ‘direction’, and brush tip rotated  “-90 degrees” in the ‘brush tip shape’ menu.

-        No shape dynamics, using the ‘Scattering’ option without any pen pressure just scaling up the ‘scatter’ amount

…and so on. You should see now the difference between ‘jitter’ and assigning control to pen behavior (pressure, tilt etc.)

What the other options do becomes clear after a bit of expirementation.

Example 9 was made with ‘texture’ option. I picket a texture, set it to ‘substract’ and altered the other settings a bit.

Example 10 was made with the ‘dual brush’ option. It sets the opacity and appearance of the first brush using the behavior another brush tip. In this case the second tip was a paintbrush stroke set to ‘Linear burn’, spacing at 25%, scatter (both axes) 180% and count 1.

‘Other dynamics’ is where to set the Opacity and Flow settings. Flow is a measure of how quick the paint is applied.

Example 11 is Opacity set to open pressure.
‘Color Dynamics’ shifts the brush colour according either to the foreground and background colours you’ve chosen or by altering the other options you see in that palette.

Example 12 used the colour red with Hue, Saturation and brightness jitters set to 50%.

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