Install, create & creatively use brushes: Tutorial for Photoshop

Intro to brush training - welcome!

Brushes from the Internet - what to look out for.

How to work with brushes in Photoshop: importing brushes, setting options and shortcuts.

Liven up the formal language of your designs thanks to suitable brush specifications. Using a simple, authentic design example, you will learn how to use brushes to create more beautiful looks in backgrounds and design elements in your layouts.

In this video you will learn how to create a grunge brush from a photo and use it directly for cool typo effects.

Create your own grunge brushes from a texture and use them directly for image aging effects. Trimming a photo to look old is now possible in just a few clicks.

Filling a blue sky with white clouds is easy. In this video, you will also be made aware of the surrounding color and the blurring in the background so that your artificial clouds also look realistic.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to add bokehs, flares and leaks to images in order to create more atmosphere in your image using backlighting effects. As a bonus tip, watermark stamps are also created over text layers at the end of the video.

You can also define recurring looks in your designs as brush presets. Here you can see how to define a whole set of familiar flyer backgrounds as brush presets so that you can design new layouts even faster in the future.

Using the example of an embroidery pattern effect, you will learn how to fill path contours with brush tips in order to create creative effects as contours for texts or to place shapes.

In this video training, we will take a detailed look at Sin City compositing and use a few - but extremely effective - brushstrokes to reinforce the image statements. Each image conveys a story, and once this has been defined, you can use different brushes to round off each image in a targeted manner.

In this video training on brush tips, we will build on the previous part. In addition to my own workflow, I'll also show you techniques to integrate your brush tips perfectly into the image: Color overlays, duplicate brush layers, transformations and blending modes.

Brush tips can be customized in a variety of ways using the brush settings and brush jitter. This allows you to influence the spread, opacity, size, color and other parameters enormously. In this video training on brushes, you will learn which jitter settings are available and how you can use them for yourself and your work.

I have already shown you some jitter settings in the previous part. In this example, there are even more possibilities. With rejuvenation and opacity jitter, a single double leaf becomes a complete fern brush, which is ideal for vegetation in digital painting.

If you want to create great compositing, you also need a large selection. If this is available in Photoshop, it is now a matter of keeping an overview. Photoshop CC's new brush management feature allows you to group and rename brushes. The elements can also be conveniently moved from A to B using drag & drop. A good structure ensures greater efficiency in the daily use of brushes.

Portraits can be easily distorted using masks and the right brushes. In this video tutorial, I show you how to use your favorite brushes (in this case ink brushes) and the layer mask to distort a photo and make the most important elements visible again, piece by piece. Less is more here. I will also show you another, extremely quick variant that is created using a Photoshop action.

If you are familiar with the possibilities of brushes and know how to use the optional procedures, you can then devote yourself to artistic work with maximum creativity. In this video, we discuss the composition of a sketch-look portrait created with hundreds of different brushes. I show you my setup and which brushes are particularly suitable for this type of artwork.

Loading new brushes in Adobe Photoshop Elements is very easy. I'll show you how to do it and how to use the brushes afterwards in this short video.