Comments on: Advanced Brush Techniques in Photoshop Tutorial

By: Mājas lapu izstrāde un grafiskais dizains

Mājas lapu izstrāde un grafiskais dizains — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:03:44 +0000

Agree with the est about the fact that this is also a great tutorial and you have so much interesting and useful information here. Keep it going, really great site!

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:39:40 +0000

Stephanie,

The last example (#6 showing your name in stitching) is just what I need, and I managed to get it to work on a crude path using GIMP without much difficulty. One limitation I found though is that GIMP has a maximum spacing for brushes of 200%. You can tweak the brush size from 0.01 to 10.0 of the original size, so with the right combination it should be possible to get a matching effect.

Thanks for both the brushes and this tutorial which really gets into some neat tricks one can do.

Marc

By: Shannon

Shannon — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:54:53 +0000

Dreich I had the same problem with the brushes being too light, and found out that I had to go to the FLOW ICON and change it to 100% instead of 25%

hope this helps.

By: Katelyn

Katelyn — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:51:47 +0000

Hi~ I love your brush sets. I downloaded a few ^.^ Do you have the stich tutorial for GIMP? Or the whole tutorial? Thanks foi taking your time and making wonderful brush sets~!

By: Angelika

Angelika — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:00:11 +0000

Stephanie, I thank you so much to give away your skills and your secrets here. Never thought I would be able to make my own stitching brush! Worked great here for me. Big hug, Angelika

By: animelovr777

animelovr777 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:37:45 +0000

I miss Photoshop… now I’m stuck with GIMP because my computer had a virus and I lost the serial code.
[Sigh]

By: Marija

Marija — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:41:14 +0000

Wow, great tutorial !!

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:27:27 +0000

@John: You’ll only see it in certain situations. For instance, if you have the brush set to fade out in size as it goes along, and you set it to a really short brush stroke length, but the minimum size is 20px… you’ll see the brush fade down to the 20px size and then even out. So, in some instances you’ll see it, and others not. I’m not aware of any way to change it so that you can always see it or lengthen the brush stroke preview or anything, nope. Sorry!

Glad the tutorial helped, though!

@Amber: Hmm. I’m not sure what you mean about #1. Your brush tool doesn’t work with any of the brush sets that don’t come with Photoshop? I’ve never heard of that. Are they showing up to be able to select them, but then just aren’t able to be used? I have NO idea what could cause such a thing. If they’re not showing up, then you either don’t have them in the right folder or they aren’t unzipped. Check my tutorial on installing and using brushes to troubleshoot that part, if that’s the case.

As for making brushes 2 colors, that’s actually covered in this tutorial. It’s under “Color Dynamics” and is explained just above the preview of the different colored leaves on this page.

Hope this helps!

By: Amber

Amber — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:39:34 +0000

Great Tutorial !

There are two things that’s are bothering me tough.
1: My brush tool doesn’t work if I load brushes.
2: How do you make brushes 2 colour, like for trees?

Thanks ^^

By: John

John — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:11:48 +0000

Great Tutorial!

When I change an option such as minimum diameter in shape dynamics I do not see a change in the brush stroke preview… is there any way I can change this?

I know it works.. I just cannot see it in the brush stroke preview

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:22:27 +0000

@Joy: That’s what layers are great for. You can use a brush on its own layer, and then just delete that layer if you don’t like it. At ANY point. And layers are easy. Just create a new layer in the bottom right-ish corner of the layers palette, and voila! You’ve created a new layer. You can switch back and forth between them by clicking on them. Think of a layer like one of those clear sheets of plastic that those transparency slides in school were on. Each layer can be removed and manipulated on its own, and only contains the stuff from that one layer.

Maybe I’ll make a whole tutorial on layers one of these days.

Hope this helps, and glad I’ve been able to be of some assistance!

By: Joy

Joy — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:31:26 +0000

Thank you so much for a very straight forward tutorial on using this stitch. I finally understand how to tweak the brushes … but have a long way to go to learn how to make my own. I still need to learn how to make a brush into it’s own layer … but that will be later. I just need the time to sit and learn one thing at a time. You are making it much easier.
CS3 is a huge program in it self so it’s a daily learning curve with me. I want to learn (brush wise) how to get rid of a brush mark when it is back in the history a ways without losing all of what I accomplished after that point.
Thanks again, have a great day.

By: dreich

dreich — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:53:26 +0000

I’m trying some of your brushes like the lips, hair strands, etc. and they all are very transparent. I’m using an older version of Photoshop but would that necessarily be the problem? Opacity is set at 100% but nothing seems to work. I can’t even change the color of the very pale, light gray hair curl that I’m able to brush on. Very confused.

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By: missskris

missskris — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:01:14 +0000

thanks SO much…i am new to PS but have learned a great deal through your awesome website and, of course, youtube. hehe