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Texture

Texture - Photoshop Tutorial

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Texture

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- [Instructor] When we apply color with the brush tool, the color normally covers up our digital canvas perfectly. That gives us a lot of control, but it also can look a little bit stiff and artificial. One brush feature that can help us to achieve a natural result is found under the texture settings here in the Brush Settings window. Here we can open up the Pattern Library of Photoshop by clicking the swatch here, and any pattern that is stored in Photoshop can be used as a texture for our brush tool. I will just keep the checkerboard texture here. Now, if we use our brush tool, we can see the texture affecting our brushstroke. We can adjust the scale of our texture to find just the right detail of our texture for our brushstroke. The way the texture affects our brushstroke is controlled by the mode that we have chosen and the depth. In the mode, we choose the way Photoshop calculates the effect of the texture. It's just a matter of experimenting here. Some of the modes work; others…

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