Media Arts Lesson 7 - Custom Brushes

Today, Mr Andrews taught us how to make a custom brush. A custom brush is a brush shape you can make yourself. I decided to make a panda bear as my first brush. We needed to make our brush no bigger than 2500x2500 pixels. Mr Andrews suggested we make our stamps 300x300 pixels. I used both hard and soft brushes to create this brush. Once you've finished your brush you could change the way it turned up once you add it. You can randomise it, so you don't know exactly where its going to go, if its going to be rotated. I thought that was very smart and making custom brushes will benefit my photoshop skills. Custom brushes are another great source to use when you want to touch up and blend. As well as custom brushes we learnt about 3 different brushes, hard brush, soft brush and the air brush. What an air brush is, is that the ends of the brush are much like a soft brush and the middle area is a hard brush. This brush could be very handy to use. Here is the picture I made using my brush (the maple leaves where a ready made brush, I did not make it):