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Replicating chalk with Erodible tips

Replicating chalk with Erodible tips - Photoshop Tutorial

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Replicating chalk with Erodible tips

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- [Voiceover] There are several forms of expressive media like pencils, chalk and charcoal that depend on the medium's tip wearing down over time in order to dynamically change the character of the drawing strokes. Photoshop can duplicate this dynamic quality with its erodible tip. Now, let's go ahead and wear down some tips. So, here we are, we're looking at another chart of mine and it just shows you the different tips that you have. There's five of them. So you get the point, the flat, the round, the square, and the triangle. And if you look at these, they suspiciously look like mediums, like pencils and chalk, and candy crayon and oil pastels and charcoal. So, these tips are designed to emulate exactly those mediums. And the idea behind them is, if you look at the square chalk for example, it's just a perfect square block. However, as an erodible tip, as I start to use this, it'll start to actually wear away at those perfect points on the edges of the corners and start to wear…

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