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Brushes tutorial

by Alien Pump


After seeing the colleagues Metamorphosis brushes archive I decided to show you how to make your own brushes.

1. For this tutorial you will have to find a picture that will be used as the base of the brush. You may do a lot of
brushes just by using one picture. For my presentation I will use the picture of Shaq O'Neal, my favorite basketball
player. (-copyright to nba.com:)


2. Now you must resize the image to the brushes size. I usually use brushes less than 110x110 pixels. So choose
a size for yours and use Image->Image Size to resize.

3.Now comes the tricky part. You will select Image->Adjust->Threshold. But let me explain something first. The black part
of the brush will paint so keep that in mind when you use the filter. Here I used an amount of 30:

Another advice from me: depending on your needs create several brushes by using different amount of Threshold.
Expect some brushing advices from me in my next tutorial. C ya!


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