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Simulating spray with Airbrush tips - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop: Customizing Brushes
Simulating spray with Airbrush tips
- [Voiceover] Photoshop has had a soft-edged brush tip since version 1.0. Many artists use this as the digital equivalent of the traditional airbrush. It excels at building up varying degrees of density with pressure. But it lacks its analog counterpart's visual display of the small, atomized droplets emitted by the airflow of a traditional airbrush. The randomness of these small, varying droplets is often used to imply texture. In this movie, we'll examine Photoshop's airbrush tip, which provides these same analog hallmarks. Let's get started. So you're probably aware, pretty much, of the standard airbrush in Photoshop, and I'm just using the soft round here, but you can see it does a really great job of going from a very soft up through to full density. So this airbrush is highly used because it is, it's just so perfect, you get the very creamy, smooth transitions of density, and for a lot of like, particularly for photo retouching and stuff, this is great for that kind of work. But…
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What brush do you want to create?1m 34s
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The illusion of continuous strokes2m 52s
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Designing a captured brush tip8m 8s
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Painting with a captured brush tip2m 32s
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Mimicking a brush with a Bristle tip7m 30s
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Painting with Bristle tips2m 40s
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Replicating chalk with Erodible tips5m 23s
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Painting with Erodible tips1m 29s
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Simulating spray with Airbrush tips7m 30s
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Painting with Airbrush tips2m 4s
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