|
|
|
|
Creating Photoshop Brushes from a Photograph |
|
|
This tutorial will show
some basics on how to create a Photoshop brush from
a photograph or a scanned image.
Firstly either scan in an image or open a digital
photograph, now we need to crop the image to the
size that we want the brush to be. Using the rectangular
marquee tool 
make a selection and then (in the top menu) go to
'Image' then 'Crop'.
tip (if the selection
tool has any feather on it this wont work, the feather
needs to be set at 0 ) |
|
|
|
Next we need to remove
the background, there are several ways of doing
this but the pen tool 
is one of the easier ways, using the pen tool draw
round the shape you want to keep, then in the paths
palatte select 'make selection' you should now have
an image with a selection running round it as shown
in the image on the left.
Now go to edit and cut (ctrl + X), the screw head
should now have disappeared, to paste it back go
to edit and paste (ctrl + V), The screw head will
now appear on a new layer. |
|
|
|
To remove the background
image, click on the eye in the layers palatte as
shown in the image on the left labelled 1. This
turns on and off the visibility of the layers, with
the background turned off you should now have just
the screw head showing on a white background.
Depending on how complex you want the brush to be
you can now save
the brush. To see some more complex features
in photoshop brush making go to the next
page, Featuring adding a shadow effect and adding
a cracked stone effect. |
|
|
|
|
