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Customizing brush tips (Photoshop)
A brush stroke is made up of many individual brush marks. The brush tip you select
determines the shape, diameter, and other characteristics of a brush mark. You can
customize brush tips by editing their options and create new brush tip shapes by
sampling pixels in an image.
Pear painted with custom brush shown in inset
To create a new brush tip shape:
1
Use the rectangle marquee
with Feather set to 0 px to select part of an image to use
as a custom brush.
The brush shape can be up to 2500 pixels by 2500 pixels in size. To be most effective, the
shape should appear on a solid white background. If you want to define a brush with soft
edges, select pixels with gray values. (Colored brush shapes appear as gray values.)
2
Choose Edit > Define Brush.
3
Name the brush, and click OK.
To set brush tip shape options:
1
In the Brushes palette, select Brush Tip Shape on the left side of the palette.
2
Select the brush tip you want to customize, and set one or more of the following
options:
Diameter
Controls the size of the brush. Enter a value in pixels or drag the slider.
Brush strokes with different diameter values
Use Sample Size
Resets the brush to its original diameter. This option is only available if
the brush tip shape was created by sampling pixels in an image.
