Brush Sets

For the brush set project we had to demonstrate how to use preset brushes and how to create your own custom brushes. I had some prior experience in this area so it was actually pretty easy. First I found my calligraphy brush and some ink, I figured I’d draw out my own strokes and scan them into the computer to be fixed up and turned into the brushes. After drawing out some strokes I liked I scanned them in and opened them up in photo shop, where I cropped them out and fixed the coloring. By turning the image into grayscale, and then adjusting the level under the image, adjustments menu. Then I selected the area I wanted to make into a brush and went to edit, and then Define Brush Preset. It then asks to name the stroke and then the stroke is added into the preset manager. I later went back and added in one more picture brush based off a fox paw print. I also tweaked some of the setting for each individual brush to achieve a certain look with it. I did this by opening the brush manager a adjusting the level in categories such as Shape dynamics, Scattering, and Color dynamics.