From the course: Photoshop: Customizing Brushes
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Enhancing fidelity with dual brushes - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop: Customizing Brushes
Enhancing fidelity with dual brushes
- [Voiceover] Earlier, we looked at the mixer brushes ability to sample color imagery then paint with that sample imagery using a captured depth shape as a mask. What if we could use a brush tip as mask for another brush tip? Essentially a brush nested in a brush. Imagine the high degree of dynamic tip change that would be possible. Oh don't you just wish? Hey, guess what? This is totally possible with the dual brush. Let's examine this beast. So I'm going to start with a very just simple brush. The round, hard dab. I'm going to open the brush panel up. I'm going to go down to dual brush. And I'm going to take the word text. And I'm going to have it paint inside this mask. So think of this, right now this brush as a normal brush is painting with the current color. As soon as we turn it into a dual brush, it is going to merge this shape using it as a mask to apply whatever secondary brush we put inside of it so that we'll get a completely different look. I've now selected the word text…
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