Comments on: Advanced Brush Techniques in Photoshop Tutorial

By: anys

anys — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:34:16 +0000

really helpfull man , keep it up . thumbs up .!

By: Tharaka

Tharaka — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 04:22:29 +0000

I hope ur tutorials are pretty good…..
and i decided to learn everything cited there……cheer!!!
salute and appreciate to ur good work….!

By: Roberta

Roberta — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:01:34 +0000

I use brushes alot, but this tutorial fills in some blanks I desperately needed, like Direction, yay!! thanks so much.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:44:11 +0000

I wish I could help more with GIMP, but I’ve never used the program. Sorry. :( I have no doubt you can find tons of GIMP tips out there on the internet, though!

By: AJ

AJ — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:32:23 +0000

Do you have any tips on brush technique for gimp? I am saving up for photoshop, so until then I use gimp. Is there a way to at least change the angle of the brushes with gimp?

Thanks a bunch
AJ

PS you have supplied me with a ton of knowledge, thank you so much for your generous contributions to the newbie novice.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 16:03:48 +0000

It’s been a while since I made this tutorial, but I’ll guess that it was mostly single clicks with size and angle jitter set, so that I could get them placed somewhat where I wanted them. Scatter can be great for some things, but doesn’t work as well with things that can’t or shouldn’t ever really overlap, like in this case. Patterns rather than textures, that kind of thing.

Hope this helps!

By: ScrappyDigits

ScrappyDigits — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:18:50 +0000

Thanks for this tutorial. Photoshop’s brush dynamics panel is one of my favorite go-to tools. Can you give me some hints about your settings and how you moved your brush to get the paisley pattern that you show above? Did you use the scatter settings? Or, did you just randomly use your brush in single clicks around your page with the size and angle jitter set?

Thanks again!

-Mary

By: Claire

Claire — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:34:19 +0000

Thank you so much, I’ve just downloaded it without problem. I had no idea Safari could be to blame!

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:39:08 +0000

Wow, that’s odd. Never realized that Safari didn’t recognize that as a downloadable file before. Other browsers seemed to have been downloading it alright, but Safari tries to open it for some odd reason. Anyway, I’ve made it a ZIP file now, so there should be no problem with recognition and it should be downloadable without any trouble now. :)

Thanks for the heads up, and sorry for the trouble!

By: Claire

Claire — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:15:37 +0000

This looks and sounds great but I’m having problems! I’ve downloaded SS-stitching.abr and have it working great, many thanks! but I can’t download the single stitch file, for me the link here just goes to a page with a load of text and I don’t know what to do with it, I have tried saving the text in the same place as the other, but my mac doesn’t recognise it as a proper abr file. Is it available in the same format as the other one please? Sorry if I’m doing something stupid.

By: Shreya

Shreya — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 14:40:35 +0000

Brilliant!!! Have just started to use brushes Been searching and looking to learn more about brushes for ever.. This is so well explained..THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:40:40 +0000

Well, if you’re making the circle fairly small, then what’s happening is the brush can’t keep up with how fast that angle is changing, and it ends up looking like what you’re seeing – with those really choppy angles. What you want to do is reduce the size of the brush, or make the stitch not quite as long, so that it’s able to keep up with the angle changing better.

There ARE limitations on just how well the brush can follow a path, though, that’s for sure. You can play around with the settings a bit to see what makes it look best, but basically this kind of thing is best used on larger, less intricate designs.

Hope this helps, and good luck!

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:40:21 +0000

Steph, followed your script for “directional” flow using shape dynamics, on a square brush, set to about 150% spacing, to create “dashes”; but when I move my mouse in a circular shape the dashes created do not follow the angle of the cursor, in that they rotate only to 0, 30, 45, 60 and 90 degrees; they do not position themselves to follow the angle of the path of the mouse. Is there some other setting I need to cause the dashes to rotate in smaller increments, so the dashed line will follow my cursor more accurately?

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:57:14 +0000

You can put it either on the design itself, or next to it if it’s being displayed on a webpage (preferrably with a link to obsidiandawn.com). How you credit me is really up to you, as long as it’s displayed along with the design that you used my resources in… every place that it’s displayed.

Alternately, if you don’t want to have to credit me, I also offer commercial licenses for resources, which are only $3 per resource and make it so that you don’t need to credit me at all for their usage.

Hope this helps!

Stephanie

By: BC

BC — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:10:45 +0000

And i also got the site wrong, very sorry, http://www.obsidiandawn.com