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Painting with a captured brush tip

Painting with a captured brush tip - Photoshop Tutorial

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Painting with a captured brush tip

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- [Voiceover] Okay so, we've got our brush design, from the previous movie, and I'm now going to go ahead and use that brush, and do a quick painting, just so you can see the brush in action, and on the other side, we'll talk a little bit about the results. Okay so, I've got my brush done, and I'm going to zoom up here to 100%. I just want to look at some of the characteristics we're getting in this brush, so you can see how it does what it does. For example, one of the things I like to do -- let me switch to -- gives us a better pointing mechanism. You can see here, where I like the way that I used light pressure, and you get this kind of tinting overlay in certain areas of the brush. One of the things this brush does not do, and we'll figure this out later, is it doesn't really blend color. So I have to rely on the opacity of the brush strokes to give the illusion of greater complexity than is really there, where as a mixed brush would allow me to mix these colors together. It's…

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