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Skin Textures Photoshop Brushes

Stephanie — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:30:40 +0000

This set of Photoshop & GIMP brushes is composed of brushes used for painting realistic skin textures. There is a tutorial that I’ve posted to go along with it. To make the most of this brush pack, you’ll want to watch it.

Painting Skin Textures in Photoshop Tutorial

Unlike all of my other sets, this set was made to work only in versions of Photoshop from CS3 onward. I’m afraid that Photoshop 7 didn’t have the ability to do with the brushes the kinds of things – mostly blending and smudging – that I wanted this set to be able to do. And the next newest version of Photoshop that I had to make them in was CS3. I’m not sure if they can be used in GIMP or not, but I assume not.

Most of these are not terribly high resolution, since in most cases they won’t need to be. They’re about 800 pixels on average, but should be scalable up to the maximum brush size without any loss of quality if you actually need them that large.

For those of you that are not digital painters or who don’t generally paint portraits, this set does wonders on photos, as well. Use it on someone’s skin to smooth up that skin and make it look professionally airbrushed. It also works great for creating textures in backgrounds and such.

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Fur Painting Photoshop & GIMP Brushes

Stephanie — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:07:11 +0000

This set of Photoshop & GIMP brushes is composed of brushes used for painting animal fur. There’s some single hairs, some doubles, and some groupings of several hair strands together. All of them are made to scatter and change their angle just slightly, so as to make the fur look realistic. They will also just slightly alter their hue, saturation, and brightness to allow for the distinguishing between individual hairs, as you can see in the preview image.

Most of these are not terribly high resolution, since in most cases they won’t need to be. They’re about 1000 pixels on average, but should be scalable up to the maximum brush size without any loss of quality if you actually need them that large.

I’m writing a few tips on using these below, so scroll down if you’re experiencing problems using them or just want some help in making them look as realistic as possible.

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Texture Photoshop & GIMP Brushes

Stephanie — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:32:08 +0000

A set of Photoshop & GIMP brushes composed of various painted textures. These brushes are made for digital artists / painters, as they are “painted” with rather than “stamped” on.

Thy create a texture as you paint with them. These are WONDERFUL for painting textured backgrounds (like something you’d see behind a portrait that you’d get taken at a photography studio). Or whatever! Come up with your own ideas for how to use them… the uses are really limitless.

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Special Effects Photoshop & GIMP Brushes

Stephanie — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:36:27 +0000

A set of Photoshop & GIMP brushes composed of various special effects or textures.

They are something a bit different than your traditional “stamped” Photoshop brush. These have various effects added to them to make them look different as you paint or draw with them.

The lines that you see in the preview image is what the brush looks like as you paint/draw with it.

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