From the course: Photoshop 2024 Essential Training

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The Brushes and Brush Settings panels

The Brushes and Brush Settings panels - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop 2024 Essential Training

The Brushes and Brush Settings panels

- [Instructor] Next we're going to take a look at a number of different brush presets as well as how we can customize them using the brush settings. I'm going to start by opening a new file at the default Photoshop size. I'll select the brush tool and then right click to reset the brush tool. In order to show the brushes panel, I'll click on the folder icon with the brush in it. We can see the brush settings as well as the brushes panel. I'm going to use the two chevrons here in order to expand these panels and then I'm going to separate them. I want the brush settings down at the bottom, so I'll select the tab and then drag it down until I see the cyan line and release it in order to unnest those two panels. So at the top we have our brushes. Here are all of our presets, and we're going to start with the dry media presets. I'll choose the ultimate pencil hard and use the right bracket to get a little bit larger of a brush. And we can see when I paint with this brush, I'm getting a…

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