{"id":505,"date":"2014-10-28T03:56:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T00:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sweetmonia.com\/Sweet-Drawing-Blog\/?p=505"},"modified":"2019-02-24T15:43:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T12:43:35","slug":"learn-photoshop-the-sweetest-way-getting-started-with-the-brush-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sweetmonia.com\/Sweet-Drawing-Blog\/learn-photoshop-the-sweetest-way-getting-started-with-the-brush-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn Photoshop The Sweetest Way:- Getting Started With The Brush Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Get The Book<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

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“Getting Started With The Brush Tool” is part of my Photoshop book “Learn Photoshop CC With Pictures”<\/strong>, which is more revised and covers more concepts than the online tutorials,\u00a0feel free to check out the book by visiting my Learn Photoshop CC With Pictures Book Page.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The brush tool is the ultimate tool of Photoshop. If you mastered this tool on its own, you will be able to do tons of things with it alone. And getting to understand many of the other Photoshop tools, like the eraser or the stamp tool. As they all work the same way. Which is why I am going to start with it. And that\u00a0the first few tutorials are going to be focusing on it<\/div>\n

You can use the Brush Tool to:-<\/b><\/h2>\n
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  • Imitate many real life brushes easily, like wet brushes and pastels.<\/li>\n
  • Create patterns and textures like sand or snow with a little skill.<\/li>\n
  • Change the colors of all or parts of a picture.<\/li>\n
  • Create pictures from scratch using graphics tablet (Or using the mouse, but I don\u2019t recommend that, for many health concerns).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Of course more that could be created with brush tool. Actually, one of the things that make the brush tool really powerful is the amount of customizability it provides. You can download additional brushes online, or even create your own. Which allows you to do unlimited number of things, and that\u2019s using only one tool. Isn\u2019t that great? :D<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

    The basics of the brush tool:-<\/h2>\n
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    There are seven things you could adjust to get immediate results from the brush tools. Master these and you have made your first step into creating great designs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

    Soft vs Hard brush tip<\/h3>\n

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    Brushes in Photoshop can be either soft or hard, soft brush fades away and blends better with its surrounding, while hard brush is the opposite of that<\/p>\n

    Adjusting the brush hardness or softness is easy, right click anywhere on your canvas and adjust the hardness slider (the less hard a brush is, the softer it is).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    Brush size<\/h3>\n

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    Brush stoke size can varies from one pixel diameter to 2500 Pixel, to change the pixel size, right click anywhere in the canvas, and adjust the brush size using the size slider<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    \u00a0Candy Tip:-<\/strong> You can change the brush size using the “[” & “]” keys on your keyboard<\/div>\n
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    Bush\u00a0flow and opacity<\/h3>\n

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    Now come the most important features of the brush tool, the flow and the opacity. Both are ways to create transparent or partial strokes. Flow & Transparency are technically the same thing, but they work differently. Understanding and exploiting the differences between the two is one of the things many Photoshop users often miss. And they don\u2019t know how much they are missing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n