Brushes are in fact imitations of the real-life brushes. The idea is to be able to draw with them the same way we do in traditional art (or even better), so each software (in our case Adobe Photoshop) tends to offer many different...
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Brushes are in fact imitations of the real-life brushes. The idea is to be able to draw with them the same way we do in traditional art (or even better), so each software (in our case Adobe Photoshop) tends to offer many different brush styles. Photoshop has a fine set of default brushes. Beside the ordinary circular you probably use often, there are sets of alternative shapes, such as grids, sponges, stars... To find more brushes, you must use the brush inspector. You can open it by clicking on the tab Brushes in the upper right corner of your workspace. Unless you have the Brush tool selected, you won't be able to use the inspector options, so go and select the Brush tool (by mouse or press B on your keyboard). We can now see a lot of different brushes, like Spatter, Chalk, Star, Scattered Maple Leaves... But, those are not all brushes avilable to us. Click on the small black arrow next to the word Brushes: this will open a large menu, and on its bottom there is a list of brush sets avilable. Select, for example, Assorted Brushes. You will be asked if you want to replace the current brush set, or just append this brush set to the existing list. Select whatever you wish. Now, try out some of the brushes. You can change their size and settings (menu on the left of the brush list). Just play with the settings a bit an see what result you get. Note that all sets listed in the menu are (most probably) located in the folder C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop X.X\Presets\Brushes (X.X being the program version, mine is 7.0). If you have downloaded a set to your disk, but it's not in this folder, Photoshop won't load them in the panel automatically. You can either move them to this folder, or load them manually each time you wish to use them by choosing Brushes > Load Brushes....
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