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Simulating spray with Airbrush tips

Simulating spray with Airbrush tips - Photoshop Tutorial

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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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