Rotating Layers in Photoshop |
| When using photoshop
brushes a handy technique is to create layers and add
brush marks and then rotate or flip the photoshop layers.
This can offer several more variations to each photoshop
brush. |
|
|
Create a new document or open an image that you
want to use, now we need to create a new layer
from the layers palate as shown on the left. Select
the Airbrush Tool 
from the tools palate, and spray a colour over
the new layer. for this tutorial I am using the
tank drawings from
the photoshop brushes download section. |
|
|
|
|
Now you have added some colour to the new
layer, go to the top menu in Photoshop then
go to 'Edit > Transform this gives you
a large selection of options as shown on
the left, most are pretty straight forward
but I would recommend trying them all out
to see what each one does.
Below is the original layer and to the right
of it is the duplicated
layer flipped horizontally duplicated
and rotated 90° then flipped horizontally. |
Original Photoshop Layer |
Duplicated and rotated layers |
 |
 |
|
|
As
you can see there are now several more variations to each
brush, and this can also be used to create new patterns.
|
