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Brush basics

Brush basics - Photoshop Tutorial

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Brush basics

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- [Instructor] We're going to take the next few minutes to find out how to quickly customize the most common attributes for the painting tools in Photoshop. I'm going to open a new file, and I'm going to select the default Photoshop size. Then I'll tap the B key to select the Brush tool, and then right click or Control click to reset the tool. I'll also want to select a foreground color. In this case, I'll choose this blue. The brush preset picker, which you can access by clicking on the downward facing chevron allows us to change a lot of different options, such as size and hardness, allows us to search our brushes, see the recently used brushes, and also select from our presets. We can make this smaller or we can enlarge this by just dragging it out. For now, I'm going to start with the General Brushes, the Hard Round brush. When you select a preset, you'll notice that there is a blue outline around it. As I make any…

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