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Brush Settings For Shading

Posted in Tutorials on March 18th, 2011 by David

The only setting I had not shown here was Other Dynamics with Pen Pressure set for both drop downs. This is just giving a quick reference to what different settings can do for your shading.

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Using The Angle Tool And Other Digital Painting Tips

Posted in Tutorials on February 9th, 2011 by David
The First thing you should do before you start painting is make sure your workspace is set up for painting. On the top Photoshop menu select Window > Workspace > Painting. This will set up your panels to work better while painting. Later on you can adjust it any way you find most useful to you. This(coming soon) is how I have mine set up.
Now that we’ve gone over how to set up a paint brush in the last tutorial, we can continue with some other more advanced settings. In the brush panel click the Brush Tip Shape tab which will bring up the page to the right. Notice the Angle and Roundness settings as well as the compass looking image to the right of them.
There are two ways to adjust the Angle and Roundness of a brush. The first way is to change the % in the boxes next to the settings. The second way is to actually click on the picture. Click and drag until the desired angle is achieved. If you want to be percise you should use the manual input option, where as if you’re just looking for a loose angle you should grab the compass image and adjust it. Same with the rouness option, you’ll see two black dots on the image in which you can grab and change the shape of the brush.
To the left you will see examples of what different roundness and angle settings can do to your brush.
A = Angle
R = Roundness
The last thing we will cover in this tutorial is the use of the pen itself. by clicking the button on the pen, just like in the picture to the right, a quick brush window will appear.
The window that pops up will let you quickly edit the Hardness and Diameter of the brush you have selected. You can also select a new brush from the list.
That’s it for this tutorial. The next tutorial will be on using the Dual Brush, Texture, and Color Dynamic brush tools.
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Setting Up Your Digital Paint Brush With Photoshop

Posted in Tutorials on February 7th, 2011 by David
The First thing you want to do is open your brush window in photoshop. If your brush window is not open, simply go to top navigation  panel and click ‘Window‘ then ‘Brushes‘ or just push f5.

Once open, click the ‘Other Dynamics‘ tab and the page you see to the left will appear. Under both drop down menus you need to select ‘Pen Pressure‘. The little caution sign just means you need a drawing tablet to use this setting. Hopefully you have one or else you should buy one. (Here is a cheap drawing tablet that is pretty decent to get started with. Don’t be tricked into buying the touch one though, that thing is horrible as it only uses finger touch and looks the same. Where as this one is designed to use a pen.)

Don’t worry about where it says 0% as that is now controlled by the pressure you put on the tablet itself.

The next tab called Brush Tip Shape is kind of hard to notice as it doesn’t have a check box next to it, thus it looks just like a title; However, you can actual click it. To the right is the page that you are able to pick which brush you want, its diameter, orientation, angle, roundness, as well as a few other settings. First we need to adjust the Spacing from it’s current setting down to 1%.
here we can see the Spacing is at 48% which gives the brush a gummy worm type shape. When painting with a brush of this shape this amount of space doesn’t really work.
By putting the Spacing down to 1% we can see how the brush is smooth, which will work much better when we actually start to paint.
You can also adjust how hard the edges of the brush is depending on what you’re working on by changing the % of the brush Hardness
Here is an example of the difference spacing of a brush makes.
The next setting is completely optional depending on what kind of look you’re going for. If you want clean strokes just leave it as it is, but if you’d like some grungier brushes, you can click the Shape Dynamics tab. In this window you can switch all three Control drop down menus to Pen Pressure. After you do this you can adjust the % of each to your liking.
Here is an example of the difference between a brush with Shape Dynamic and one without.
The last settings you need to change, for the basics of creating a digital paint brush, is to adjust the Opacity and Flow. These settings will appear when you have the brush tool selected.

For the base colors and shades it is best to stay around 80% or above, but when it comes to blending you should knock the amounts down to about 20%. Below is an example of the difference this makes.

That’s about all you need to start painting in Photoshop! The next tutorial is on the Angle and Roundness brush tools. Check it out here.


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Photoshop Exercise #1: 5 Minute Pictures

Posted in Tutorials on January 11th, 2011 by David

5 Minute Photoshop Exercise:

Rules:

Time Limit: 5 minutes for each piece (do 5 in a row)

Size: 500x500px (you don’t want it too big as you only have 5 minutes)

1. Brushes: The use of brushes is NOT allowed as the focus of the piece. They can be used as texturing certain things, but you have to blend different brushes.
Example:

2. Shapes: Same goes for downloaded shapes. You CAN’T use shapes unless you alter them to the point that they are no longer just a single shape.
Example:

3. No Google: You are NOT allowed to take images from google or anywhere else. Everything in these images must be created in photoshop.

Themes:
1. Favorite Animal
2. Landscape
3. Fake Soda Logo
4. Abstract
5. Your Choice

Good luck to anyone that wants to try this. I hope it helps and if you do do it, you should post your results in the comment section so we can review them together. :)

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