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Mimicking a brush with a Bristle tip

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Mimicking a brush with a Bristle tip

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- [Voiceover] In the last movie, we created a captured painterly dab that exhibits qualities found in a traditional paintbrush, and this technique offers expressive capabilities not possible any other way. However, Photoshop also has the bristle tip, which is specifically designed to mimic brush hair behavior. In this movie, we'll explore utilizing the bristle tip to create a variation on painterly stroke appearance. I've got this chart up to talk a little bit about the variations that are available in the brush tips, and you can see there's five different types, which are named after the type of tip shape that they have. So we have the pointed, the blunt, the curved, angled, and fan. And then that's further divided up into a round and a flat category, and that is once again based on the tip shape. You can see the brushes at the top are symmetrical and fully round, whereas the so-called flat variants are just one-dimensional and do not have a full, round tip as part of their makeup…

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