The ultimate brush training

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Install, create & creatively use brushes: Tutorial for Photoshop

The brush tool offers numerous parameters and an almost infinite variety of motifs - explore the facets and limitless application possibilities with this video training! Learn how to import and install brush tips, create brushes yourself, organize the brush palette and, above all, use the brush tool creatively in design and image editing in this two-hour video training course.

Installing and importing brushes and creating your own brushes
How to use brushes in Photoshop in a targeted manner and install them in Photoshop Elements
How to use brushes efficiently in layout & design, e.g. for typographic effects & illustrated backgrounds
Photo editing: clouds and light effects, ageing photos - achieve realistic results
Image montage & painting: create new image elements with brushes and create your own looks

Tim: Brush time! - High time to exhaust the possibilities of the brush tool! You'll also receive over 50 brush tips and various sample images to get you started.

Details

Usable with:
content: 2 h Video training
Licence: private and commercial Rights of use
Bonus: including working material

Examples of use

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Example: Enhance the mood of your pictures by adding light reflections with brushes.

Create Photoshop brushes and you're ready to go. Use them to create high-quality illustrations for designs and backgrounds.

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Example: Learn how to use brushes for high-quality illustration of designs.

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Example: Create your own grunge brush and use it to trim photos to look old.

Creative use of brush tips to create artistic artwork. Create your own Photoshop brush!

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Example: There are no limits to your creativity with brush tips.

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Use ready-made brushes or learn how to create brushes in Photoshop. Example of using brushes: Portrait of a woman emerging from wafting inks.

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The ultimate brush training: 1.1 Intro

Intro to brush training - welcome!

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The ultimate brush training: 1.2 Brushes from the internet

Brushes from the Internet - what to look out for.

The ultimate brush training: 1.3 Importing brushes

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

The ultimate brush training: 1.4 Brushes as a form language

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.

The ultimate brush training: 1.5 Creative grunge-style typo effects

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

The ultimate brush training: 1.6 Trimming pictures to look old: the finishing touch with grunge brushes

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.

The ultimate brush training: 1.7 Cloud brushes in use while maintaining authenticity

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.

The ultimate brush training: 1.8 Bokeh brushes in use: making pictures more atmospheric with backlight effects

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.

The ultimate brush training: 1.9 Popular flyer backgrounds as brush templates

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.

The ultimate brush training: 1.10 Creative contour effects with brush fills

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.

Brush - Practical examples

The ultimate brush training: 2.1 Image review: Brushes as a creative stylistic device for finishing images - Part 1

The ultimate brush training: 2.1 Image review: Brushes as a creative stylistic device for finishing images - part one

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.

The ultimate brush training: 2.2 Image review: Brushes as a creative stylistic device for finishing images - Part 2

The ultimate brush training: 2.2 Image review: Brushes as a creative stylistic device for finishing images - part two

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.

The ultimate brush training: 2.3 Brush and jitter settings for more variation: Hearts

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.

The ultimate brush training: 2.4 brush and jitter settings for more variation: Ivy

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.

The ultimate brush training: 2.5 Order is half the battle: Managing and structuring brush tips

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.

The ultimate paintbrush training: 2.6 Creative looks: alienating portraits with brush tips, 2 variants

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.

The ultimate brush training: 2.7 Image review: using all the brush properties you have learned for a sketch-look portrait

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.

Brush - Photoshop Elements

The ultimate brush training: 3 brushes to load in Photoshop Elements

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.

Details of the content

Layout, design, image editing - brushes can do so much more!
You're probably familiar with brush(es) : you equip your brush tool with a brush tip, i.e. with a desired motif, and then place it in your images and designs. Done? - Not at all, because brushes can do much, much more! They support you in compositing, in designing layouts, in creating looks, image moods or fine, rounding off details.

This training shows you how versatile you can use brushes for your work , adding illustrative elements to backgrounds and text with textured effects and individually created contours. Hearts flutter dozens of times through a romantic design in just a few clicks and whole ivy tendrils grow from the rough sketch of two leaves. Learn how to add realistic cloud brushes to a blue sky, create atmosphere in your pictures with backlights, age photos and use brushes for artistically sophisticated montages. This training provides you with know-how and inspiration for your next brushstrokes!

Install, create, manage and use brushes correctly

In this two-hour video training course, you will learn the basics of importing , organizing, creating and using brushes in Photoshop . The tutorial also explains how to create a realistic fern as a brush yourself using the jitter setting. You will then be able to use the brush tool skilfully and effectively. The training focuses on the numerous possible uses of brushes, illustrated using practical examples.

Using brushes in layout & design

In Layout & Design, you will enliven monochrome backgrounds by adding illustrative elements. You can add exciting structural effects to texts, for example for headlines, or add your own contours using brush fills. Design elements that you use repeatedly for flyers or posters, for example, can be grouped together in a set so that you can access them quickly. If you are missing a suitable brush tip such as a heart for a romantic design, simply create it yourself. Shortly afterwards, the hearts will flutter through your layout with suitable jitter settings, large and small and in different shades.

Using brushes in photo editing

In the field of photo editing, you can use brushes to trim images to make them look old, to add atmosphere with the help of backlights or to add clouds to a flawless blue sky. You will learn how to achieve the most realistic results possible by taking aspects such as the surrounding color or blurring into account.

Brushes used creatively in digital painting and compositing in Photoshop

Is your image montage lacking vegetation? Then roughly sketch the shape of two leaves, turn them into a brush and generate complete plants from them. Learn how to do this and which settings are required in the training. You will also learn from several image reviews how brushes can be used in combination with color overlays, transformations and blending modes, for example, to transform source images into spectacular artwork. Further highlights: the artistic alienation of portraits in sketch-look style or with billowing swathes of ink.

What will you gain from this course?

Learn how to install or import brushes , organize them and use them efficiently with the Photoshop tutorial. The focus is on the creative uses of brushes in the fields of image editing and compositing as well as layout and design. Let yourself be inspired and make the most of the functions of the brush tool!