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Dual Brush

Dual Brush - Photoshop Tutorial

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Dual Brush

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- [Instructor] One very interesting feature of the Photoshop Brush settings is the Dual Brush function. In order to show how it works, I've set up a simple Scattering Brush. You can see it here. Now this is a brush that uses a combination of size jitter on a small round standard Photoshop brush tip to make different sizes of speckles here. And then under Scattering we have a high Scattering value and a Count value of two to multiply the number of speckles that we get. And I like the texture that this brush creates but I don't like the fully edge of the brush stroke. So can I do something about it? Yes I can. That's where the Dual Brush function kicks in. If I activate it, you will immediately see here in the brush stroke preview that our brush stroke has changed. Let's have a look into the Settings here. So it automatically assigned this first brush tip here. And what this effectively does is the brush stroke that is created by this second or Dual Brush tip masks off the first brush…

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