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Loading ...Custom Brushes are extremely popular among digital artists—and for good reason. Often thought of as the digital equivalent of rubber stamps, brushes are indispensable tools for adding flair to your work.
Think past the Brush tool … custom brushes also work with the Clone Stamp tool, the Impressionist Brush tool, the Eraser tool, the Dodge tool, the Burn tool and the Sponge tool. Let’s try a quick trick using a custom brush with the Clone Stamp tool to create the look of a masked photo in a snap!
You’ll begin with two documents open in your work¬space — a layout in progress (or just a background paper for practice purposes) and a photo.
1. Click directly on the photo to make it the active document.
2. Select the Clone Stamp tool from the Toolbox.
3. From the Options bar click the Show selected brush presets drop-down menu.
4. Double click the brush of choice to load.
This example uses a brush from Katie Pertiet’s “Stamped Blocks Brushes -n- Stamps” (http://designerdigitals.com)
5. Position the cursor to cover the desired area of your photo. (Resize the brush by pressing the [ or ] keys to increase or decrease the brush diameter )
6. Press ALT (OPTION on Mac) while clicking once on the photo to sample the image.
7. Switch to the document containing your layout in progress.
8. In the Layers palette, create a new blank layer above all other layers.
9. Position the brush and click the left mouse button once to “stamp” the image onto the new blank layer you created.
Looks fabulous doesn’t it? (We won’t tell anyone how easy it was if you don’t!)
Patty… what an awesome tutorial and technique! I love the graphic look and feel of the page you’ve demo’d!
Thanks for the idea!
Unless you can copy the directions from the screen, it will be a little difficult to remember each step as you combine the use of the clone stamp tool with the custom brush. Also, my PC doesn’t have “option”…what would I use instead?
On a Mac you would use the Option button, on your PC you use the ALT button. Hope this helps.
Thank you so much for sharing this! So simple and yet.. who’d a thunk?! I’ve been using Photoshop for years and hadn’t cottoned on to this.
Thanks for this great tutorial, I am just learning PSE 7 and look forward to trying this out
Thanks very much for your help :)
I have needed help with Photoshop – glad I found you :)
This sounds great! Only i can’t view the screen shots :(
Thanks for the information. The screen shots are not displayed on this page.
I am new to computer art & have never used abamboo befoer any help so any help can I will glad to recev.
computer art is new tom